FRANKSTON MIDDLE

FRANKSTON MIDDLE is a middle school of minimally staffed scale in FRANKSTON, Texas, one of the schools within FRANKSTON ISD, caters to 171 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 73% leaner than typical.

FRANKSTON ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 811 students; FRANKSTON MIDDLE is among them.

Demographically, FRANKSTON MIDDLE reports that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Anderson County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting FRANKSTON MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Anderson County's rate of about 68%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FRANKSTON MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.7%; this one delivers 56.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Anderson County indicate median household income runs about $62,068, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Anderson County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,071 students), FRANKSTON MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is FRANKSTON EL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FRANKSTON MIDDLE comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. FRANKSTON MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 219 (now 171). White enrollment moved from 81% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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