FRANKLIN EL

FRANKLIN EL operates as a compact primary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, overseen by SAN ANTONIO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 409 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 100 schools in SAN ANTONIO ISD (47,623 students total), FRANKLIN EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, FRANKLIN EL shows that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, FRANKLIN EL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at FRANKLIN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FRANKLIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of +8.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Bexar County put the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. FRANKLIN EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

WHITTIER MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FRANKLIN EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 473 students in 2018 compared to 409 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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