Enrollment
290
Elementary
DISTRICT 312 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOLINE-COAL VALLEY CUSD 40·NCES 172640002805
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
5312 11th Avenue C, Moline, IL 61265 · (309) 743-1607 · Rock Island County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL290 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
164 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
47.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +22.5pp since 2023
Math
46.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +18.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 23 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.5% | 46.8% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 28.8% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School's state test result (39.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Franklin Elementary School this school | 290 | 56.6% | 39.7% |
| Parkside Elementary School Normal | 322 | 53.1% | 32.2% |
| Westfield School Winthrop Harbor | 346 | 55.8% | 35.1% |
| Hazelgreen Elementary School Alsip | 290 | 58.3% | 37.9% |
| Lotus School Spring Grove | 345 | 57.1% | 33.5% |
| Columbus Manor Elementary School Oak Lawn | 359 | 57.1% | 60.2% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Benjamin Franklin Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Rock Island County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #924 of 1,925 | #7 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #758 of 2,077 ▲ 97 | #5 of 28 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #1,088 of 2,077 ▲ 288 | #6 of 28 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 290 | #1,600 of 2,419 | #19 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #1,388 of 2,035 | #14 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.8% | #272 of 2,042 | #15 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.6% | #1,117 of 2,132 | #23 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.6% | #316 of 615 | #7 of 10 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
290
+12 (+4%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 351
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 290 | 20.1 | 14.5:1 | 57% (164) |
| 2023-24 | 304 | 15.5 | 19.6:1 | 61% (184) |
| 2022-23 | 287 | 17.6 | 16.3:1 | 59% (170) |
| 2020-21 | 278 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 267 | 17.4 | 15.4:1 | 49% (132) |
| 2015-16 | 274 | 15 | 18.3:1 | 50% (137) |
| 2010-11 | 279 | 15 | 18.6:1 | 37% (103) |
| 2000-01 | 310 | 16 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 351 | 16 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Benjamin Franklin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (267 to 290); teachers up 15% (17.4 to 20.1).
About Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
In Moline, Illinois, part of Rock Island County, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is an elementary school. The school had 290 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381, so this school runs 24% smaller than that.
Moline-Coal Valley CUSD 40 is the local district for Benjamin Franklin Elementary School. It runs 14 schools with 7,257 students.
White students are the largest group at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, with 47% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 30% Hispanic, 16% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The school's White share is 25 points below the 72% share among Rock Island County residents. By the diversity index, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School comes in at 67%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 14.5:1, with 20.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Illinois average about 13.9:1, a similar figure. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is 57%. For comparison, public schools in Rock Island County average 65%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Illinois schools: 39.7% actual against 38.9% predicted.
Within Rock Island County, median household income is about $67,159, about 25% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 57 public schools in Rock Island County, with a combined enrollment of about 21,921.
The nearest other public school, Woodrow Wilson Middle School, is about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 25.0%; Benjamin Franklin Elementary School's is 39.7%, ranking 1st of 9.
Federal data place Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School went from 278 students to 290.
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Rock Island County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
142,757
Census ACS
Median income
$67,159
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
21,921 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Moline-Coal Valley CUSD 40
- Moline Sr High SchoolHigh · 2,195 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 860 students
- John Deere Middle SchoolMiddle · 770 students
- Hamilton Elementary SchoolElementary · 560 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
- Lincoln-Irving Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
Other schools in Moline
- Moline Sr High SchoolHigh · 2,195 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 860 students
- John Deere Middle SchoolMiddle · 770 students
- Hamilton Elementary SchoolElementary · 560 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
- Lincoln-Irving Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
Other Benjamin Franklin Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 7 states are named Benjamin Franklin Elementary. Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is the 14th largest of the 14.
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary SchoolGlen Ellyn, IL · 581 students
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryRiverside, CA · 767 students
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryCorona, CA · 673 students
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryLa Quinta, CA · 627 students
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary SchoolEDISON, NJ · 619 students
Nearby schools
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School0.5 mi · 860
- Hillcrest Elementary School0.9 mi · 353
- George Washington Elementary School0.9 mi · 323
- Glenview Middle School1.1 mi · 1,092
- Wells Elementary School1.1 mi · 307
- Ridgewood Elementary School1.1 mi · 407
Frequently asked questions
About Benjamin Franklin Elementary SchoolHow large is Benjamin Franklin Elementary School?
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School enrolls approximately 290 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Benjamin Franklin Elementary School serve?
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is approximately 14.5:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School?
At Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, the student body is approximately 47% White, 30% Hispanic, 16% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in?
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is part of Moline-Coal Valley CUSD 40.
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