Franklin Elementary School

Franklin Elementary School is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Muscatine, Iowa, overseen by Muscatine Comm School District, with 295 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Franklin Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by Muscatine Comm School District, a district that enrolls 4,280 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Franklin Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 44% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Muscatine County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Muscatine County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Franklin Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 62.6%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the area at large, Muscatine County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,396 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Franklin Elementary School is one of 15 public schools in Muscatine County (combined enrollment of about 6,527 students).

Nearest neighbor: Susan Clark Junior High, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Franklin Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 63.1%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 294 students in 2018 compared to 295 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Franklin Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.