Northwood Elementary School

As an average-sized K-5 school in Franklin, Indiana, Northwood Elementary School educates 505 students from grades pre-K through 4, overseen by Franklin Community School Corp.

Franklin Community School Corp runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,966 students. Northwood Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northwood Elementary School records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Johnson County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Northwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 45.5%, a residual of +12.6 points.

Across the wider county, Johnson County reports that median household income runs about $90,454, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Johnson County runs 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,824 students), of which Northwood Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Franklin Community Virtual School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northwood Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 478 students in 2018 compared to 505 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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