FRANKSTON EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 19 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 FRANKSTON EL
Set in FRANKSTON, Texas, FRANKSTON EL is a small elementary campus, part of FRANKSTON ISD. It teaches 381 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so FRANKSTON EL sits 27% below that benchmark.
Across the 3 schools in FRANKSTON ISD (811 students total), FRANKSTON EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, FRANKSTON EL lists that 72% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 15% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, FRANKSTON EL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting FRANKSTON EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Anderson County (around 68%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FRANKSTON EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.1%; this one delivers 52.9%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Anderson County indicate median household income runs about $62,068, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. FRANKSTON EL is one of 26 public schools in Anderson County (combined enrollment of about 8,071 students).
Nearest neighbor: FRANKSTON MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FRANKSTON EL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 52.2%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 405 students in 2018 compared to 381 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 10% to 15% over that span.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for FRANKSTON EL typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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