Enrollment
358
Elementary
DISTRICT 332 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARSHALLTOWN COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191872000372
Franklin Elementary School
1315 W Main St, Marshalltown, IA 50158 · (641) 754-1041 · Marshall County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL358 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% of Iowa public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
264 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 41%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 31 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 18% smaller than its 4th grade class (65).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 48% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Franklin Elementary School→Lenihan Intermediate School→B R Miller Middle School→Marshalltown High School
Based on grade levels within Marshalltown Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
59.7%
IA avg 73.6% . -5.9pp since 2023
Math
72.8%
IA avg 70.9% . -7.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.7% | 72.8% |
| 2023-24 | 65.6% | 80.3% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
69.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.1%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Iowa's top 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 (69.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Elementary School this school | 358 | 73.7% | 69.7% |
| Rock Valley Elementary School Rock Valley | 370 | 68.6% | 77.1% |
| Franklin Elementary School Muscatine | 295 | 67.1% | 62.6% |
| Riverside Elementary School Sioux City | 227 | 72.7% | 65.1% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Muscatine | 441 | 68.0% | 55.1% |
| Phillips Elementary Des Moines | 263 | 79.1% | 46.9% |
Matched among Iowa 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 Iowa | In Marshall County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.7% | #338 of 564 | #2 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.8% | #341 of 564 ▼ 136 | #3 of 8 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.7% | #456 of 564 ▼ 91 | #7 of 8 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 358 | #280 of 705 | #4 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #57 of 561 | #2 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.7% | #115 of 561 | #3 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.7% | #58 of 666 | #5 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.3% | #282 of 359 | #7 of 7 |
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
358
+21 (+6%) vs 2020
-18% since 2000-01, when it was 438
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 358 | 31.6 | 11.3:1 | 74% (264) |
| 2023-24 | 361 | 30.6 | 11.8:1 | 77% (279) |
| 2022-23 | 361 | 28.6 | 12.6:1 | 78% (281) |
| 2020-21 | 337 | 30 | 11.2:1 | 72% (242) |
| 2017-18 | 378 | 28 | 13.5:1 | 72% (271) |
| 2015-16 | 359 | 29 | 12.4:1 | 64% (231) |
| 2010-11 | 362 | 28 | 12.9:1 | 64% (232) |
| 2000-01 | 438 | 30 | 14.6:1 | 43% (189) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (378 to 358); teachers up 13% (28 to 31.6).
About Franklin Elementary School
Franklin Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Iowa, located in Marshalltown. Its grade span covers pre-K through 4, with 358 students on the rolls.
Franklin Elementary School is one school in Marshalltown Comm School District, a system of 10 schools with 5,099 students.
At Franklin Elementary School, White students make up the biggest share, 43%. Enrollment also includes 43% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 3% Black. Among people living in Marshall County, the White share is about 71%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 63%.
Franklin Elementary School lists 31.6 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 11.3 students per teacher. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Iowa is 13.7:1. About 74% of students at Franklin Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 65% average for public schools in Marshall County is 9 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, Franklin Elementary School lands at B+, ahead of 65% of Iowa public elementary schools.
Franklin Elementary School is 14.6 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Iowa.
Looking at the county, Marshall County, the median household earns about $73,315 a year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Franklin Elementary School, Marshall County has 17 public schools.
B R Miller Middle School is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Franklin Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Franklin Elementary School at 1st of 8.
Its NCES locale code is Town: Distant: the school is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The school's enrollment rose 6% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
Franklin Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Marshall County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
40,114
Census ACS
Median income
$73,315
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
17
6,903 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Marshalltown Comm School District
- Marshalltown High SchoolHigh · 1,629 students
- B R Miller Middle SchoolMiddle · 736 students
- Lenihan Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Woodbury Elementary SchoolElementary · 387 students
- Fisher Elementary SchoolElementary · 368 students
- J C Hoglan Elementary SchoolElementary · 337 students
Other schools in Marshalltown
- Marshalltown High SchoolHigh · 1,629 students
- B R Miller Middle SchoolMiddle · 736 students
- Lenihan Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Woodbury Elementary SchoolElementary · 387 students
- Fisher Elementary SchoolElementary · 368 students
- J C Hoglan Elementary SchoolElementary · 337 students
Other Franklin Elementary schools
74 other US public schools in 22 states are named Franklin Elementary. Franklin Elementary School is the 38th largest of the 75.
- Franklin Elementary SchoolCouncil Bluffs, IA · 421 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolBoone, IA · 329 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolMuscatine, IA · 295 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolLe Mars, IA · 261 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolKEARNY, NJ · 950 students
Nearby schools
- B R Miller Middle School0.3 mi · 736
- Rogers Elementary School0.9 mi · 253
- Lenihan Intermediate School1.6 mi · 655
- Marshalltown Virtual Academy1.8 mi · 90
- Woodbury Elementary School1.8 mi · 387
- Anson Elementary School1.8 mi · 286
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Elementary SchoolHow large is Franklin Elementary School?
Franklin Elementary School enrolls approximately 358 students in grades PK-04.
Is Franklin Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Franklin Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does Franklin Elementary School have?
Franklin Elementary School employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Franklin Elementary School?
Student demographics at Franklin Elementary School are roughly 43% White, 43% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Franklin Elementary School public or private?
Franklin Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Marshalltown Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.