Franklin Park School

Franklin Park School is a substantial primary school in Franklin Park, New Jersey, run under Franklin Township Public School District. The school works with 671 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Franklin Park School sits 66% above that benchmark.

Franklin Township Public School District comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 6,950 students; Franklin Park School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Franklin Park School logs that 32% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 30% Asian, 27% Hispanic, 8% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Somerset County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Franklin Park School has 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Franklin Park School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Somerset County (around 28%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Franklin Park School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.5%; this one delivers 44.3%.

In the broader community, Somerset County reports that median household earnings sit near $140,374, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Franklin Park School is one of 84 public schools in Somerset County (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students).

Claremont Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Franklin Park School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Franklin Park School has contracted 14%, going from 781 students in 2018 to 671 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 18% to 27% over that span.

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