Franklin Jr/Sr High School

Franklin Jr/Sr High School is a senior high of micro-enrollment scale in Franklin, Illinois, part of Franklin CUSD 1, teacheing 157 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 81% smaller than the state mean of about 834.

Franklin CUSD 1 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 284 students. Franklin Jr/Sr High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Franklin Jr/Sr High School logs that 99% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. By comparison, Morgan County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Franklin Jr/Sr High School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at Franklin Jr/Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Morgan County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Franklin Jr/Sr High School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.4%; Franklin Jr/Sr High School posts 39.6%, -16.9 points below that line.

In the broader community, Morgan County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,306 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Morgan County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,446 students), of which Franklin Jr/Sr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Franklin Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Franklin Jr/Sr High School. On composite proficiency, Franklin Jr/Sr High School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Franklin Jr/Sr High School's enrollment has edged up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 147 (now 157). White enrollment moved from 93% to 99% across the same window.

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