Franklin Park Middle School

Franklin Park Middle School operates as a medium-sized middle school in Salem, Illinois, overseen by Salem SD 111. Current enrollment sits at 528 students spanning grades 4 through 8.

Salem SD 111 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 949 students; Franklin Park Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Franklin Park Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). The remainder consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Franklin Park Middle School reports 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marion County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Franklin Park Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.7%; this one delivers 47.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Marion County) logs that median household income runs about $61,240, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Franklin Park Middle School is one of 27 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 5,636 students).

Hawthorn Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Franklin Park Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Franklin Park Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 37.5%.

Franklin Park Middle School operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Franklin Park Middle School has ticked down 15%, going from 618 students in 2018 to 528 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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