JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN ES

JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN ES is a primary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Tulsa, Oklahoma, operated by TULSA, hosting 367 students in grades pre-K through 5.

TULSA comprises 69 schools with combined enrollment of 33,617 students; JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN ES is among them.

In terms of who attends, JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN ES lists that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 19% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 11% White, 3% Native American. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.8:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tulsa County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN ES is in the bottom 10% of Oklahoma public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 23.6%; JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN ES posts 0.0%, -23.6 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Tulsa County) shows that median household earnings sit near $69,009, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN ES is one of 180 public schools in Tulsa County (combined enrollment of about 113,616 students).

Nearest neighbor: TULSA LEGACY ES, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 408 students in 2018 compared to 367 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 58% to 49%. Class-load math has rose: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 in 2025.

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