Franklin Elementary

Franklin Elementary is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in Mount Airy, North Carolina, operated by Surry County Schools, educateing 473 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Surry County Schools, which oversees 20 schools and 7,318 students, Franklin Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Franklin Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 25% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Franklin Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Franklin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 54.5%, a residual of +5.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Surry County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $55,656 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Franklin Elementary is one of 30 public schools in Surry County (combined enrollment of about 11,139 students).

Meadowview Magnet Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Franklin Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Franklin Elementary's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 547 (now 473). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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