FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL

FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL is an elementary school of compact scale in PEARL RIVER, New York, part of PEARL RIVER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 262 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.

Within PEARL RIVER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,148 students, FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL reports that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Rockland County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Rockland County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,959, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Rockland County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students), of which FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 71.1%.

FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL has ticked down 18%, going from 318 students in 2018 to 262 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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