Enrollment
369
Elementary
DISTRICT 274 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341590005714
Franklin Elementary School
136 BLACKBURN ROAD, SUMMIT, NJ 07901 · (908) 277-2613 · Union County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL369 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
12.7:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
3%
10 students
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 74 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 19% |
This year's 1st grade class (74) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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 Summit Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
89.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.7pp since 2023
Math
92.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 92 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.7% | 92.1% |
| 2023-24 | 87.0% | 91.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
84.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 (84.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Elementary School this school | 369 | 2.7% | 84.0% |
| Southern Boulevard School CHATHAM | 369 | 1.9% | 73.7% |
| Stonybrook Elementary School KINNELON | 358 | 3.6% | 69.1% |
| Hillside Elementary School Allendale | 348 | 2.0% | 78.1% |
| Lincoln-Hubbard Elementary School SUMMIT | 351 | 4.3% | 79.4% |
| Kiel Elementary School KINNELON | 374 | 2.9% | N/A |
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 | 84.0% | #19 of 1,290 | #2 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 92.1% | #5 of 1,319 ▲ 1 | #1 of 93 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.7% | #16 of 1,319 ▲ 8 | #2 of 93 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 369 | #811 of 1,562 | #67 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #1,038 of 1,390 | #63 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.8% | #917 of 1,392 | #66 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 2.7% | #1,405 of 1,481 | #91 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.3% | #350 of 545 | #23 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
369
+40 (+12%) vs 2020
+44% since 1990-91, when it was 256
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 369 | 29 | 12.7:1 | 3% (10) |
| 2023-24 | 350 | 28.5 | 12.3:1 | 3% (10) |
| 2022-23 | 327 | 28.5 | 11.5:1 | 5% (16) |
| 2020-21 | 329 | 26 | 12.7:1 | 5% (15) |
| 2017-18 | 347 | 28 | 12.4:1 | 2% (7) |
| 2015-16 | 345 | 26 | 13.3:1 | 4% (14) |
| 2010-11 | 377 | 21 | 17.9:1 | 4% (14) |
| 2000-01 | 359 | 22 | 16.3:1 | 1% (4) |
| 1990-91 | 256 | 11 | 23.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (347 to 369); teachers up 4% (28 to 29).
About Franklin Elementary School
Franklin Elementary School is one of the public schools in SUMMIT, New Jersey. It is a medium-sized elementary school. The school's enrollment of 369 students covers grades 1 through 5.
Summit Public School District counts 3,987 students in its 9 schools, and Franklin Elementary School is one of them.
White students are the majority at Franklin Elementary School, with 72% of enrollment. Other groups make up 13% Asian, 8% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Union County as a whole is about 39% White, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 46% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Franklin Elementary School's 29 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 12.7:1. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey have 11.4:1, compared with 12.7:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 3%. That is lower than the 52% average for public schools in Union County.
allk12 grades Franklin Elementary School an A+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with New Jersey schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Franklin Elementary School does better than predicted by 19.3 points. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 84.0%; the prediction is 64.7%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Union County show that the median household income is $103,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Besides Franklin Elementary School, Union County has 179 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Primary Center at Wilson, is about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, Franklin Elementary School ranks 2nd in a group of 7 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Franklin Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 40 more students in 2024-25.
Discussion on this page can cover school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Summit Public School District
- Summit High SchoolHigh · 1,198 students
- Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle SchoolMiddle · 871 students
- Lincoln-Hubbard Elementary SchoolElementary · 351 students
- Brayton Elementary SchoolElementary · 335 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 323 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 221 students
Other schools in SUMMIT
- Summit High SchoolHigh · 1,198 students
- Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle SchoolMiddle · 871 students
- Lincoln-Hubbard Elementary SchoolElementary · 351 students
- Brayton Elementary SchoolElementary · 335 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 323 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 221 students
Other Franklin Elementary schools
74 other US public schools in 22 states are named Franklin Elementary. Franklin Elementary School is the 37th largest of the 75.
- Franklin Elementary SchoolKEARNY, NJ · 950 students
- 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
Nearby schools
- Primary Center at Wilson0.4 mi · 203
- Brayton Elementary School0.6 mi · 335
- Salt Brook School0.7 mi · 583
- Summit High School0.8 mi · 1,198
- Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School0.9 mi · 871
- Lincoln-Hubbard Elementary School1.1 mi · 351
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Franklin Elementary School?
Franklin Elementary School enrolls approximately 369 students in grades 01-05.
What age range does Franklin Elementary School serve?
Franklin Elementary School serves students from grade 01 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Franklin Elementary School?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at Franklin Elementary School.
How diverse is Franklin Elementary School?
Franklin Elementary School reports a student body of 72% White, 8% Hispanic, 2% Black, 13% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Franklin Elementary School in?
Franklin Elementary School is part of Summit Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.