FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a heavily attended elementary-level community in SYRACUSE, New York, FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL educates 678 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 53% larger than the state mean of about 443.

Within SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 31 schools and 18,608 students, FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 52% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 22% Asian, 11% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Onondaga County's rate of about 49%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.9%; actual is 20.1%, a gap of -25.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Onondaga County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,945, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Onondaga County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), of which FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is GRANT MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 23.9%.

FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 6%: 723 students in 2018 compared to 678 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 33% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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