Franklin Elementary School

Franklin Elementary School is a cozy K-5 school in Le Mars, Iowa, one of the schools within Le Mars Comm School District. The school educates 261 students in grades K through 5.

Franklin Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Le Mars Comm School District, a district that enrolls 2,157 students overall.

On demographics, Franklin Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Plymouth County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Franklin Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.4%.

In the broader community, census data for Plymouth County shows median household earnings sit near $83,251, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Plymouth County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,219 students), Franklin Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Le Mars High School, around 0.6 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Franklin Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 77.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Franklin Elementary School has edged down 4%, going from 271 students in 2018 to 261 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 83% to 68% over that span.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.