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What's something Franklin Middle School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
469
Middle
DISTRICT 450 · STATE 400
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CEDAR RAPIDS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190654000239
Franklin Middle School
300 20th ST NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 · (319) 558-2452 · Linn County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL469 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Iowa public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
275 students
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 41%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 146 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 152 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 171 | 36% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
69.2%
IA avg 73.6% . +8.5pp since 2023
Math
57.6%
IA avg 70.9% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.2% | 57.6% |
| 2023-24 | 60.7% | 56.7% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.6%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 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 Middle School
Franklin Middle School's state test result (60.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Middle School this school | 469 | 58.6% | 60.1% |
| Aldo Leopold Intermediate School Burlington | 412 | 58.3% | 47.5% |
| Edward Stone Middle School Burlington | 452 | 56.6% | 52.6% |
| McKinley STEAM Academy Cedar Rapids | 426 | 60.6% | 58.1% |
| George Washington Middle School Dubuque | 584 | 53.4% | 65.4% |
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School Dubuque | 402 | 67.4% | 48.3% |
Matched among Iowa middle 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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.1% | #193 of 224 | #14 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #194 of 224 ▲ 1 | #14 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.2% | #177 of 224 ▲ 20 | #14 of 17 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 469 | #75 of 246 | #11 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #73 of 180 | #7 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.4% | #31 of 180 | #4 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.6% | #33 of 237 | #4 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.6% | #12 of 103 | #4 of 10 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
469
-17 (-3%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 683
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 469 | 33.8 | 13.9:1 | 59% (275) |
| 2023-24 | 532 | 33.6 | 15.8:1 | 58% (309) |
| 2022-23 | 537 | 32.6 | 16.4:1 | 56% (299) |
| 2020-21 | 486 | 38 | 12.8:1 | 58% (282) |
| 2017-18 | 630 | 41.5 | 15.2:1 | 53% (331) |
| 2015-16 | 649 | 39 | 16.6:1 | 44% (285) |
| 2010-11 | 620 | 43 | 14.4:1 | 39% (244) |
| 2000-01 | 687 | 47 | 14.6:1 | 23% (161) |
| 1990-91 | 683 | 45 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (630 to 469); teachers down 19% (41.5 to 33.8).
About Franklin Middle School
Franklin Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school in Cedar Rapids Comm School District, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Its 469 students are spread across grades 6 through 8.
The Cedar Rapids Comm School District system has 35 schools and 15,494 students.
White students are the majority at Franklin Middle School, with 58% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 20% Black, 12% multiracial, and 8% Hispanic. Among all residents of Linn County, the White share is about 84%. Pick two students at random and there is a 60% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school has about 13.9 students per teacher and 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 1.3 below the 15.2:1 average for middle schools in Iowa. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 59%. The rate at public schools in Linn County averages 40%, lower than here.
Franklin Middle School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 13% of Iowa public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Franklin Middle School would be expected to post about 62.6%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 60.1%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Linn County show that the median household income is $77,649, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Franklin Middle School is one of 83 public schools in the county.
Empowering Excellence Charter School is the public school closest to Franklin Middle School, about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Franklin Middle School ranks 3rd of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 60.1% against a local average of 54.3%.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Mid-size. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment dropped 3% from its 2020-21 level of 486. The ratio was 12.8:1 in 2020-21 and 13.9:1 in 2024-25.
If you have questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Franklin Middle School, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Linn County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,004
Census ACS
Median income
$77,649
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
36,480 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cedar Rapids Comm School District
- John F Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,648 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,501 students
- George Washington High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Harding Middle SchoolMiddle · 710 students
- Taft Middle SchoolMiddle · 593 students
- Viola Gibson Elementary SchoolElementary · 565 students
Other schools in Cedar Rapids
- Prairie High SchoolHigh · 1,766 students
- John F Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,648 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,501 students
- George Washington High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Prairie PointMiddle · 868 students
- Prairie CreekMiddle · 846 students
Other Franklin Middle schools
15 other US public schools in 13 states are named Franklin Middle. Franklin Middle School is the 9th largest of the 16.
- Franklin MiddleReisterstown, MD · 1,150 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolYakima, WA · 848 students
- Franklin MiddleChantilly, VA · 798 students
- FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOLPOCATELLO, ID · 718 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolChampaign, IL · 665 students
Nearby schools
- Empowering Excellence Charter School0.4 mi · 120
- Arthur Elementary School0.5 mi · 229
- George Washington High School0.5 mi · 1,182
- Trailside Elementary School0.6 mi · 429
- Johnson STEAM Academy School0.8 mi · 324
- Garfield Elementary School0.8 mi · 202
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Middle SchoolHow large is Franklin Middle School?
Franklin Middle School enrolls approximately 469 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Franklin Middle School serve?
Franklin Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Franklin Middle School?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Franklin Middle School.
How diverse is Franklin Middle School?
Franklin Middle School reports a student body of 58% White, 8% Hispanic, 20% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Franklin Middle School in?
Franklin Middle School is part of Cedar Rapids Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.