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What's the most underrated thing about FRANKLIN EL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
676
Elementary
DISTRICT 545 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTHSIDE ISD·NCES 483312012860
Franklin Elementary School
9180 SILVER SPOT, SAN ANTONIO, TX 78254 · (210) 398-1700 · Bexar County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL676 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
244 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 66 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 106 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 121 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 38% smaller than its 5th grade class (121).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
62.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +24.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
51.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +8.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 31.0% | 31.0% | 22.0% | 16.0% |
| Mathematics | 20.0% | 31.0% | 26.0% | 23.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 62.0% | 51.0% |
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 51.0% |
| 2022-23 | 50.0% | 56.0% |
| 2021-22 | 73.0% | 33.0% |
| 2020-21 | 38.0% | 43.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Franklin Elementary School
Franklin Elementary School's state test result (47.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Elementary School this school | 676 | 36.1% | 47.4% |
| IDEA Yukon Academy ODESSA | 736 | 38.3% | 40.7% |
| Hoffmann Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 754 | 34.2% | 45.3% |
| Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy HOUSTON | 715 | 39.2% | 62.0% |
| Lieck Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 631 | 39.6% | 49.4% |
| Henderson Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 819 | 36.0% | 54.6% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Franklin Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bexar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #1,690 of 4,401 | #84 of 313 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,690 of 4,466 ▼ 213 | #82 of 317 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #1,280 of 4,466 ▲ 456 | #69 of 317 ▲ 21 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.5pp | #2,358 of 3,998 | #154 of 282 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 676 | #1,072 of 4,938 | #76 of 346 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,408 of 4,622 | #106 of 314 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.7% | #1,844 of 4,628 | #77 of 314 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.1% | #4,071 of 4,789 | #282 of 327 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.0% | #1,434 of 2,838 | #117 of 192 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
676
-146 (-18%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 16.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 676 | 48.8 | 13.9:1 | 36% (244) |
| 2023-24 | 724 | 49 | 14.8:1 | 38% (277) |
| 2022-23 | 769 | 50.5 | 15.2:1 | 40% (305) |
| 2020-21 | 822 | 50 | 16.4:1 | 26% (212) |
| 2017-18 | 814 | 49 | 16.6:1 | 34% (274) |
| 2015-16 | 626 | 39 | 16.1:1 | 34% (210) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (814 to 676); teachers unchanged (49 to 48.8).
About Franklin Elementary School
Located in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Franklin Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school. The school has 676 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Texas enroll about 519 students on average.
The NORTHSIDE ISD system has 127 schools and 100,208 students.
More than half of the students at Franklin Elementary School are Hispanic (62%). The remaining shares are 22% White, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That is in line with Bexar County, where about 60% of residents are Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Franklin Elementary School scores 56%.
There are 48.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at Franklin Elementary School, giving a ratio of 13.9:1. The school's 13.9:1 compares with an average of 15.1:1 for elementary schools in Texas. By family income, 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Bexar County averages 63%, higher than here.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Franklin Elementary School would be expected to post about 58.3%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 47.4%.
Census data for Bexar County show the median household earns about $72,341 a year, roughly 32% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Public schools in Bexar County number 638, with about 368,487 students.
Tomlinson Elementary School is about 0.5 miles from Franklin Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Franklin Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 47.4% average proficiency ranks 7th among 9 nearby schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was an 18% decrease, from 822 to 676. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 16.4:1 to 13.9:1.
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Bexar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,067,341
Census ACS
Median income
$72,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
638
368,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NORTHSIDE ISD
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 2,670 students
- Brandeis High SchoolHigh · 2,657 students
- Marshall High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
Other schools in SAN ANTONIO
- Reagan High SchoolHigh · 3,403 students
- East Central High SchoolHigh · 3,362 students
- Johnson High SchoolHigh · 3,196 students
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
Other Franklin Elementary schools
74 other US public schools in 22 states are named Franklin Elementary. Franklin Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 75.
- Franklin Elementary SchoolWICHITA FALLS, TX · 442 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 409 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 218 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolKEARNY, NJ · 950 students
- Franklin ElementaryElk Grove, CA · 932 students
Nearby schools
- Tomlinson Elementary School0.5 mi · 875
- Scarborough Elementary School0.6 mi · 925
- Folks Middle School0.6 mi · 1,497
- Sotomayor High School0.9 mi · 2,627
- Fields Elementary School1.0 mi · 776
- Jefferson Middle School1.4 mi · 990
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Franklin Elementary School?
Franklin Elementary School enrolls approximately 676 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Franklin Elementary School serve?
Franklin Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Franklin Elementary School?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Franklin Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Franklin Elementary School?
Student demographics at Franklin Elementary School are roughly 22% White, 62% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Franklin Elementary School public or private?
Franklin Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by NORTHSIDE ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.