Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School

Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School is a primary school of big scale in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School, hosting 962 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School sits 117% bigger than that benchmark.

Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School is the operating authority for Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School shows that 70% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 18% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 35% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 69% of students at Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Philadelphia County (around 95%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.0%; this one delivers 41.5%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Philadelphia County put the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bridesburg Sch, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Franklin Towne Charter Elementary School has edged up 3%, going from 936 students in 2018 to 962 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 84% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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