Franklin Sch

Franklin Sch operates as a rural-scale elementary campus in Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Uniontown Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 127 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 71% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Within Uniontown Area SD, which oversees 9 schools and 2,485 students, Franklin Sch is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Franklin Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Fayette County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Franklin Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fayette County) reports that median household earnings sit near $58,236, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Franklin Sch is one of 39 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students).

Frazier MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Franklin Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.0%.

Franklin Sch operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Franklin Sch's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 152 (now 127). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 1% to 6%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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