New Franklin Elementary

New Franklin Elementary is an elementary-level community of compact scale in New Franklin, Missouri, one of the schools within NEW FRANKLIN R-I, caters to 194 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 38% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

New Franklin Elementary is one of 2 schools operated by NEW FRANKLIN R-I, a district that hosts 392 students overall.

On the student-mix side, New Franklin Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest reads as 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 45% of students at New Franklin Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, New Franklin Elementary sits in the top 10% of Missouri schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 50.4%; actual is 71.4%, +21.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Howard County indicate median household income runs about $65,938, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Howard County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,373 students), New Franklin Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: New Franklin Middle-High, around 0.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, New Franklin Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. New Franklin Elementary's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 222 (now 194). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.