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Which teacher or staff member at Franklin Elementary School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
658
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAHWAY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341353005640
Franklin Elementary School
1809 ST GEORGES AVE, RAHWAY, NJ 07065 · (732) 396-1050 · Union County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL658 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
475 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 | 29 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 101 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is 7% smaller than its 6th grade class (101).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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 Rahway Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
46.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.2pp since 2023
Math
22.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.2% | 22.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 24.6% |
% 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
31.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 (31.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Elementary School this school | 658 | 72.2% | 31.6% |
| West End School North Plainfield | 600 | 76.0% | 29.3% |
| Cedarbrook Elementary School PLAINFIELD | 671 | 69.2% | 21.0% |
| Number 2 LINDEN | 602 | 78.7% | 19.6% |
| Dr. William Mennies Elementary School VINELAND | 558 | 73.5% | 19.3% |
| Senator Frank Lautenberg School PATERSON | 605 | 70.2% | 5.3% |
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 Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #933 of 1,290 | #50 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #1,119 of 1,319 ▼ 94 | #71 of 93 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.2% | #806 of 1,319 ▼ 39 | #49 of 93 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 658 | #154 of 1,562 | #20 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #1,256 of 1,390 | #93 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.9% | #542 of 1,392 | #34 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.2% | #323 of 1,481 | #46 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.7% | #484 of 545 | #37 of 42 |
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
658
+40 (+6%) vs 2020
+33% since 1990-91, when it was 493
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 658 | 46.5 | 14.2:1 | 72% (475) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 48.2 | 13.2:1 | 72% (455) |
| 2022-23 | 627 | 48.2 | 13.0:1 | 62% (388) |
| 2020-21 | 618 | 44 | 14.1:1 | 62% (383) |
| 2017-18 | 647 | 50.5 | 12.8:1 | 64% (413) |
| 2015-16 | 642 | 46 | 14.0:1 | 63% (407) |
| 2010-11 | 556 | 32 | 17.4:1 | 59% (327) |
| 2000-01 | 602 | 32 | 18.8:1 | 44% (263) |
| 1990-91 | 493 | 27 | 18.3:1 | 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% (647 to 658); teachers down 8% (50.5 to 46.5).
About Franklin Elementary School
Students in RAHWAY, New Jersey, attend Franklin Elementary School, a large elementary school. The student body numbers 658 students, from pre-K through 6. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New Jersey) has about 405 students.
Rahway Public School District is the local district for Franklin Elementary School. It runs 6 schools with 4,090 students.
Roughly 57% of students at Franklin Elementary School are Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 26% Black, 10% White, and 4% multiracial. Among people living in Union County, the Hispanic share is about 35%. The school's diversity index is 59%, meaning two students picked at random have a 59% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school reports 46.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 14.2 students per teacher. That is 2.7 students per teacher above the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 72% of students. Compared with the 52% average for public schools in Union County, the school's rate is higher.
Measured against New Jersey public elementary schools, Franklin Elementary School receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Franklin Elementary School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 31.6% is 4.9 points above the 26.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census estimates describe Union County this way: the median household income is $103,202, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. In all, Union County has 180 public schools and roughly 99,046 students.
Rahway 7th & 8th Grade Academy is the public school closest to Franklin Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Franklin Elementary School places 4th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school enrolled 658 students in 2024-25, 40 more than the 618 it had in 2020-21.
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Union County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,290
Census ACS
Median income
$103,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
99,046 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rahway Public School District
- Rahway High SchoolHigh · 1,286 students
- Rahway 7th & 8th Grade AcademyMiddle · 701 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 608 students
- Grover Cleveland Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
Other schools in RAHWAY
- Rahway High SchoolHigh · 1,286 students
- Rahway 7th & 8th Grade AcademyMiddle · 701 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 608 students
- Grover Cleveland Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
Other Franklin Elementary schools
74 other US public schools in 22 states are named Franklin Elementary. Franklin Elementary School is the 8th largest of the 75.
- Franklin Elementary SchoolKEARNY, NJ · 950 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolNEWARK, NJ · 725 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolN BERGEN, NJ · 509 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolWestfield, NJ · 509 students
- Franklin ElementaryUNION, NJ · 453 students
Nearby schools
- Rahway 7th & 8th Grade Academy0.7 mi · 701
- Rahway High School0.8 mi · 1,286
- Madison Elementary School0.8 mi · 384
- Valley Road School0.9 mi · 390
- Roosevelt Elementary School1.0 mi · 608
- Number 91.1 mi · 311
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Franklin Elementary School?
Franklin Elementary School enrolls approximately 658 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Franklin Elementary School serve?
Franklin Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Franklin Elementary School?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at Franklin Elementary School.
How diverse is Franklin Elementary School?
Franklin Elementary School reports a student body of 10% White, 57% Hispanic, 26% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Franklin Elementary School public or private?
Franklin Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rahway Public School District.
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