Franklin Square Elementary/Middle

Franklin Square Elementary/Middle is one of the mid-sized primary schools in Baltimore, Maryland, part of Baltimore City Public Schools, with 490 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Across the 152 schools in Baltimore City Public Schools (76,946 students total), Franklin Square Elementary/Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Franklin Square Elementary/Middle reports that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 17% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Franklin Square Elementary/Middle higher than the state norm the norm. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Baltimore city runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Franklin Square Elementary/Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.0%, the actual is 16.4%, a residual of -6.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Baltimore city reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Franklin Square Elementary/Middle is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

The closest other public school is Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Franklin Square Elementary/Middle comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 17.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 467 students in 2018 compared to 490 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 95% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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