Franklin Elementary School

Franklin Elementary School operates as a small elementary campus in Dolton, Illinois, run under Dolton SD 148. Current enrollment sits at 259 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 381.

Across the 10 schools in Dolton SD 148 (2,077 students total), Franklin Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Franklin Elementary School reports that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Franklin Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.2%, the actual is 13.3%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Franklin Elementary School is one.

Thornridge High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Franklin Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Franklin Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 18.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 247 students in 2018 compared to 259 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.