WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM.

WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM. is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in FARMINGTON, Missouri, part of FARMINGTON R-VII, with 363 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 4.

FARMINGTON R-VII comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,937 students; WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM. is among them.

In terms of who attends, WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM. shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM. lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 53% of students at WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM. is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.3%; WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM. posts 4.5%, -45.8 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for St. Francois County shows the typical household earns roughly $57,477 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across St. Francois County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,962 students), WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is TRUMAN LEARNING CENTER, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WASHINGTON-FRANKLIN ELEM. at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 358 students in 2018 compared to 363 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 97% to 92%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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