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Enrollment
950
Elementary
DISTRICT 560 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KEARNY·NCES 340789002868
Franklin Elementary School
100 DAVIS AVE, KEARNY, NJ 07032 · (201) 955-5020 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL950 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
97 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
697 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 171 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 116 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 118 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 112 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 131 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (116) is 11% smaller than its 6th grade class (131).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 71% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Kearny. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
40.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
24.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.9% | 24.4% |
| 2023-24 | 38.9% | 25.2% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. 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
30.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for New Jersey 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 New Jersey'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 Elementary School
Franklin Elementary School's state test result (30.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Elementary School this school | 950 | 73.4% | 30.7% |
| Christa McAuliffe School JERSEY CITY | 906 | 70.3% | 40.5% |
| Hudson Arts and Science Charter School Kearny | 848 | 70.5% | 37.0% |
| Haledon Public School HALEDON | 996 | 67.8% | 27.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary School NORTH BERGEN | 1,193 | 72.8% | 34.5% |
| Oliver Street School NEWARK | 1,034 | 83.0% | 39.6% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary 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 Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.7% | #949 of 1,290 | #61 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #1,077 of 1,319 ▼ 61 | #70 of 84 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #910 of 1,319 ▼ 7 | #60 of 84 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 950 | #20 of 1,562 | #7 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #287 of 1,390 | #11 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.8% | #987 of 1,392 | #55 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.4% | #308 of 1,481 | #42 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.6% | #489 of 545 | #20 of 24 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
950
+88 (+10%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 745
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 950 | 97.3 | 9.8:1 | 73% (697) |
| 2023-24 | 965 | 90.3 | 10.7:1 | 67% (648) |
| 2022-23 | 934 | 85.3 | 11.0:1 | 62% (581) |
| 2020-21 | 862 | 83 | 10.4:1 | 61% (526) |
| 2017-18 | 935 | 88.3 | 10.6:1 | 60% (558) |
| 2015-16 | 1,103 | 87 | 12.7:1 | 62% (688) |
| 2010-11 | 857 | 61 | 14.1:1 | 42% (361) |
| 2000-01 | 787 | 54 | 14.6:1 | 39% (310) |
| 1990-91 | 745 | 52 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (935 to 950); teachers up 10% (88.3 to 97.3).
About Franklin Elementary School
Franklin Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school that serves part of KEARNY, New Jersey. There are 950 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 6. That puts enrollment 135% larger than the 405-student average for elementary schools in New Jersey.
Franklin Elementary School sits within Kearny, which has 7 schools and 5,388 students.
Federal enrollment data show Franklin Elementary School is 73% Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 20% White, 3% Black, and 3% Asian. The school's Hispanic share is 32 points above the 41% share among Hudson County residents. A diversity index of 43% means there is a 43% chance two randomly chosen students at Franklin Elementary School are from different groups.
The school lists 97.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.8:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 73% of the student body.
Franklin Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 30.7% and a predicted 26.0%.
Looking at the county, Hudson County, median household income comes to about $91,795, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 49% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 130 public schools and about 86,216 students.
The closest school to Franklin Elementary School is Kearny High School, located about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Franklin Elementary School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Federal data place Franklin Elementary School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 950, compared with 862 in 2020-21.
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Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kearny
- Kearny High SchoolHigh · 1,825 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMiddle · 763 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Schuyler Elementary SchoolElementary · 437 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 428 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 428 students
Other schools in KEARNY
- Kearny High SchoolHigh · 1,825 students
- Hudson Arts and Science Charter SchoolElementary · 848 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMiddle · 763 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Schuyler Elementary SchoolElementary · 437 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 428 students
Other Franklin Elementary schools
74 other US public schools in 22 states are named Franklin Elementary. Franklin Elementary School is the largest of the 75.
- Franklin Elementary SchoolNEWARK, NJ · 725 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolRAHWAY, NJ · 658 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolN BERGEN, NJ · 509 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolWestfield, NJ · 509 students
- Franklin ElementaryUNION, NJ · 453 students
Nearby schools
- Kearny High School0.4 mi · 1,825
- Harrison High School0.4 mi · 795
- Washington Elementary School0.6 mi · 557
- Lincoln Elementary School0.6 mi · 306
- Garfield Elementary School0.7 mi · 428
- Washington Middle School0.7 mi · 466
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Elementary SchoolHow large is Franklin Elementary School?
Franklin Elementary School enrolls approximately 950 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Franklin Elementary School serve?
Franklin Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Franklin Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Franklin Elementary School is approximately 9.8:1 (97 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Franklin Elementary School?
At Franklin Elementary School, the student body is approximately 20% White, 73% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Franklin Elementary School in?
Franklin Elementary School is part of Kearny.
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