Benjamin Franklin Middle

Located at 225 Middle School Road, in Rocky Mount, Virginia, Benjamin Franklin Middle is a large junior high that instructs 1,382 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Franklin County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 84% bigger than the state mean of about 750.

Franklin County Public Schools comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 6,540 students; Benjamin Franklin Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Benjamin Franklin Middle logs that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 9% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 8% Black. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 133 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Benjamin Franklin Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.6%, the actual is 75.4%, a residual of +10.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Franklin County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,849 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Benjamin Franklin Middle is one of 14 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 6,540 students).

Franklin County High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Benjamin Franklin Middle. On composite proficiency, Benjamin Franklin Middle comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.2%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Benjamin Franklin Middle's enrollment has climbed 82% since 2018, when it stood at 761 (now 1,382). Over the same period, the White share declined from 77% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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