Franklin Junior High School

Franklin Junior High School operates as a low-enrollment middle school in Franklin, Louisiana, run under St. Mary Parish. Current enrollment sits at 196 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 55% smaller than the state mean of about 440.

St. Mary Parish comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 7,153 students; Franklin Junior High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Franklin Junior High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%); the rest comes out to 9% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Franklin Junior High School has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, St. Mary Parish runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Franklin Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 17.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for St. Mary Parish shows median household earnings sit near $52,576, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Franklin Junior High School is one of 23 public schools in St. Mary Parish (combined enrollment of about 7,765 students).

Franklin Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Franklin Junior High School at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 22.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Franklin Junior High School's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 214 (now 196). The Black share of enrollment climbed from 74% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Franklin Junior High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.