Franklin Middle School

Franklin Middle School operates as a reasonably sized middle-grades school in Champaign, Illinois, one of the schools within Champaign CUSD 4. Current enrollment sits at 665 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 44% bigger than the state mean of about 462.

Champaign CUSD 4 runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 10,598 students. Franklin Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Franklin Middle School lists that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% White, 12% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

On the resource side, Franklin Middle School logs 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Franklin Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Champaign County) shows that median household income runs about $63,683, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Franklin Middle School is one of 66 public schools in Champaign County (combined enrollment of about 25,919 students).

Nearest neighbor: Stratton Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Franklin Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 28.9%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Franklin Middle School's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 648 (now 665). Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 12% across the same window.

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