Franklin Woods Intermediate School

Franklin Woods Intermediate School is a middle-of-the-pack junior high in Columbus, Ohio, operated by South-Western City. The school serves 666 students in grades 5 through 6. That puts it 38% larger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 482 students.

Across the 33 schools in South-Western City (21,873 students total), Franklin Woods Intermediate School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Franklin Woods Intermediate School logs that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 26% Black, 23% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the resource side, On paper, Franklin Woods Intermediate School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Franklin County's rate of about 41%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Franklin Woods Intermediate School is in the bottom 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.7%; Franklin Woods Intermediate School posts 41.4%, -15.3 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Franklin County put the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Franklin Woods Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

Finland Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Franklin Woods Intermediate School. On composite proficiency, Franklin Woods Intermediate School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 706 students in 2018 compared to 666 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 52% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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