Enrollment
259
Elementary
DISTRICT 237 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOLTON SD 148·NCES 171245001495
Franklin Elementary School
14701 Chicago Rd, Dolton, IL 60419 · (708) 201-2083 · Cook County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL259 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 12% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
248 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 32 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 31 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (32) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (31).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
20.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +6.7pp since 2023
Math
11.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +10.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.7% | 11.9% |
| 2023-24 | 14.0% | 1.5% |
% 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
13.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% 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 Franklin Elementary School
Franklin Elementary School's state test result (13.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Elementary School this school | 259 | 95.8% | 13.3% |
| Washington H Elementary School Chicago | 273 | 96.0% | 18.3% |
| Chateaux School Hazel Crest | 249 | 96.4% | 17.9% |
| Higgins Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 271 | 94.1% | 19.9% |
| Manierre Elementary School Chicago | 269 | 96.3% | 7.3% |
| Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts Chicago | 272 | 96.0% | 31.7% |
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 Franklin Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.3% | #1,807 of 1,925 | #695 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.9% | #1,841 of 2,077 ▲ 200 | #670 of 829 ▲ 139 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.7% | #1,908 of 2,077 ▼ 110 | #753 of 829 ▼ 51 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 259 | #1,780 of 2,419 | #729 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #1,027 of 2,035 | #467 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.4% | #1,678 of 2,042 | #632 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.8% | #125 of 2,132 | #97 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.9% | #435 of 615 | #131 of 186 |
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
259
+37 (+17%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 345
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 | 259 | 19.3 | 13.4:1 | 96% (248) |
| 2023-24 | 269 | 19.3 | 13.9:1 | 98% (263) |
| 2022-23 | 235 | 22.3 | 10.5:1 | 97% (229) |
| 2020-21 | 222 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 247 | 21 | 11.8:1 | 96% (237) |
| 2015-16 | 257 | 21 | 12.2:1 | 95% (243) |
| 2010-11 | 229 | 19 | 12.1:1 | 88% (202) |
| 2000-01 | 395 | 19 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 345 | 17 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (247 to 259); teachers down 8% (21 to 19.3).
About Franklin Elementary School
Franklin Elementary School is a small elementary school found in Dolton, Illinois. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 6, with 259 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in Illinois enroll around 381, and this school is 32% below that mark.
A total of 10 schools make up Dolton SD 148, with 2,077 students enrolled.
Franklin Elementary School is 90% Black by enrollment. The next largest groups are 8% Hispanic. In Cook County overall, about 22% of residents are Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Franklin Elementary School scores 18%.
For every teacher at Franklin Elementary School, there are about 13.4 students; the school has 19.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. There are 248 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 96% of enrollment. On average, public schools in Cook County report 66%.
Franklin Elementary School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 12% of Illinois public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Franklin Elementary School is -3.0 points: 13.3% actual, 16.2% predicted.
In the surrounding county, Cook County, median household income comes to about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
Thornridge High School is about 0.6 miles from Franklin Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Franklin Elementary School places 6th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school grew from 222 students in 2020-21 to 259 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Franklin Elementary School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dolton SD 148
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 282 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 248 students
- Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 197 students
- Early Childhood CntrElementary · 196 students
- Lincoln Junior High SchoolMiddle · 168 students
Other schools in Dolton
- Thornridge High SchoolHigh · 969 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Berger-Vandenberg Elementary SchoolElementary · 266 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 248 students
- Diekman Elementary SchoolElementary · 227 students
- Early Childhood CntrElementary · 196 students
Other Franklin Elementary schools
74 other US public schools in 22 states are named Franklin Elementary. Franklin Elementary School is the 60th largest of the 75.
- Franklin Elementary SchoolPark Ridge, IL · 535 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolSterling, IL · 407 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolMattoon, IL · 243 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolBelleville, IL · 172 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolMetropolis, IL · 155 students
Nearby schools
- Thornridge High School0.6 mi · 969
- Early Childhood Cntr0.7 mi · 196
- Lincoln Junior High School0.7 mi · 168
- Lincoln Elementary School0.7 mi · 342
- Roosevelt Elementary School1.0 mi · 248
- Roosevelt Junior High School1.0 mi · 130
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Franklin Elementary School?
Franklin Elementary School enrolls approximately 259 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Franklin Elementary School serve?
Franklin Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Franklin Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Franklin Elementary School is approximately 13.4:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Franklin Elementary School?
At Franklin Elementary School, the student body is approximately 0% White, 8% Hispanic, 90% Black, 2% Two or more.
Is Franklin Elementary School public or private?
Franklin Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Dolton SD 148.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.