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FRANKLIN EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 55 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 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 17 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FRANKLIN EL
FRANKLIN EL is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, overseen by NORTHSIDE ISD, caters to 676 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 30% bigger than typical.
Within NORTHSIDE ISD, which oversees 128 schools and 100,435 students, FRANKLIN EL is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, FRANKLIN EL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 22% White, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, FRANKLIN EL has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at FRANKLIN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.
With demographic context factored in, FRANKLIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.1%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of -12.2 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), FRANKLIN EL is one campus in the mix.
TOMLINSON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FRANKLIN EL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 52.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Over the past 7-year window. FRANKLIN EL's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 814 (now 676). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 26% to 22% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.
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