Ashton-Franklin Center Elem Sch

As a close-knit elementary-level community in Franklin Grove, Illinois, Ashton-Franklin Center Elem Sch educates 218 students from grades pre-K through 6, operated by Ashton-Franklin Center CUSD 275. Enrollment runs roughly 43% below the state mean of about 381.

Within Ashton-Franklin Center CUSD 275, which oversees 2 schools and 434 students, Ashton-Franklin Center Elem Sch is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ashton-Franklin Center Elem Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Lee County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 51% of students at Ashton-Franklin Center Elem Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ashton-Franklin Center Elem Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.9%, the actual is 39.2%, a residual of -2.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lee County indicate median household income runs about $70,292, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Lee County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,778 students), Ashton-Franklin Center Elem Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ashton-Franklin Center HS, roughly 4.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Ashton-Franklin Center Elem Sch comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

Ashton-Franklin Center Elem Sch operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ashton-Franklin Center Elem Sch has shrank 19%, going from 268 students in 2018 to 218 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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