Franklin Regional Primary School

Students in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, attend Franklin Regional Primary School, a medium-sized elementary school. The school's enrollment of 619 students covers kindergarten through 2. Statewide, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students each.

Franklin Regional SD runs Franklin Regional Primary School along with 3 other schools, enrolling 3,280 students in total.

The large majority of students at Franklin Regional Primary School, 85%, are White. The remaining shares are 6% multiracial, 4% Asian, and 3% Hispanic. By the diversity index, Franklin Regional Primary School comes in at 27%.

Franklin Regional Primary School employs 45.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 13.7:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania have a similar average ratio of 13.1:1. Franklin Regional Primary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 21%. That is 32 points below the 53% average for public schools in Westmoreland County.

Census Bureau estimates for Westmoreland County show that median household income is about $74,109, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 85 public schools in Westmoreland County, with a combined enrollment of about 41,302.

The closest other public school is Franklin Regional Intermediate School, about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Franklin Regional Primary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.

From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Franklin Regional Primary School went from 601 students to 619. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.8:1 to 13.7:1 over the same years.

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