Enrollment
274
Elementary
DISTRICT 313 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PULLMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530693001017
Franklin Elementary
850 SE Klemgard, Pullman, WA 99163 · (509) 334-5641 · Whitman County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL274 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
83 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 38 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Pullman School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
79.0%
WA avg 58.4% . +4.5pp since 2014
Math
80.4%
WA avg 51.2% . +7.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 80.4% |
| 2023-24 | 76.1% | 75.6% |
| 2022-23 | 75.0% | 75.7% |
| 2021-22 | 71.7% | 73.0% |
| 2018-19 | 78.7% | 67.7% |
| 2017-18 | 78.8% | 69.9% |
| 2016-17 | 75.8% | 68.0% |
| 2015-16 | 75.3% | 66.5% |
| 2014-15 | 74.5% | 73.3% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
80.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Washington's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Franklin Elementary
Franklin Elementary's state test result (80.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Elementary this school | 274 | 30.3% | 80.0% |
| Sunnyside Elementary Pullman | 326 | 30.1% | 70.8% |
| Point Defiance Elementary School Tacoma | 301 | 33.9% | 62.9% |
| Lowell Elementary School Tacoma | 331 | 30.2% | 69.1% |
| Vancouver Innovation Technology and Arts Elementary Vancouver | 300 | 31.7% | N/A |
| Lake Shore Elementary VANCOUVER | 300 | 31.3% | N/A |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Franklin Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Whitman County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #48 of 936 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.4% | #41 of 1,103 ▲ 41 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #63 of 1,102 ▲ 25 | #1 of 6 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.3pp | #161 of 928 | #1 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 274 | #1,018 of 1,268 | #4 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #268 of 1,085 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.5% | #680 of 1,088 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.3% | #928 of 1,169 | #5 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.7% | #26 of 778 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
274
+10 (+4%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 267
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 12.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 274 | 18.7 | 14.7:1 | 30% (83) |
| 2023-24 | 250 | 19.4 | 12.9:1 | 26% (66) |
| 2022-23 | 262 | 20 | 13.1:1 | 27% (72) |
| 2020-21 | 264 | 21 | 12.6:1 | 20% (52) |
| 2017-18 | 470 | 24.5 | 19.2:1 | 38% (179) |
| 2015-16 | 455 | 21 | 21.7:1 | 44% (199) |
| 2010-11 | 365 | 14 | 26.1:1 | 35% (128) |
| 2000-01 | 270 | 13 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 267 | 13 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 42% (470 to 274); teachers down 24% (24.5 to 18.7).
About Franklin Elementary
Franklin Elementary is a small elementary school in Pullman, Washington, (ZIP code 99163). The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 274 students. Elementary schools in Washington have about 380 students on average; enrollment here is 28% lower.
The Pullman School District system has 6 schools and 2,731 students.
The share of White students at Franklin Elementary is 65%, a majority. After that, the student body is 14% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 8% Asian, and 2% Black. Census figures show Whitman County is about 76% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 54, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Franklin Elementary, there are about 14.7 students; the school has 18.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Washington, 17.3:1, is higher. There are 83 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 30% of enrollment. Among public schools in Whitman County, the average eligibility rate is 40%.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Franklin Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Washington schools. It scores 80.0%; the prediction is 59.9%.
Whitman County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $55,406 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 50% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Whitman County number 28, with about 4,753 students.
Of the public schools around it, Franklin Elementary is closest to Lincoln Middle School, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 6. Franklin Elementary is 1st of 6 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Town: Distant.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Franklin Elementary had a net gain of 10 students, or 4%. The ratio was 12.6:1 in 2020-21 and 14.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Whitman County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,003
Census ACS
Median income
$55,406
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
4,753 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pullman School District
- Pullman High SchoolHigh · 838 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMiddle · 643 students
- Jefferson ElementaryElementary · 335 students
- Sunnyside ElementaryElementary · 326 students
- Kamiak ElementaryElementary · 315 students
Other schools in Pullman
- Pullman High SchoolHigh · 838 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMiddle · 643 students
- Jefferson ElementaryElementary · 335 students
- Sunnyside ElementaryElementary · 326 students
- Kamiak ElementaryElementary · 315 students
- Pullman Community MontessoriCombined · 118 students
Other Franklin Elementary schools
74 other US public schools in 22 states are named Franklin Elementary. Franklin Elementary is the 56th largest of the 75.
- Franklin ElementarySpokane, WA · 428 students
- Franklin ElementaryPORT ANGELES, WA · 318 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolTacoma, WA · 260 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolKEARNY, NJ · 950 students
- Franklin ElementaryElk Grove, CA · 932 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Middle School0.4 mi · 643
- Sunnyside Elementary1.1 mi · 326
- Pullman Community Montessori1.1 mi · 118
- Jefferson Elementary1.7 mi · 335
- Pullman High School2.2 mi · 838
- Kamiak Elementary2.5 mi · 315
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Franklin Elementary?
Franklin Elementary enrolls approximately 274 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Franklin Elementary serve?
Franklin Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Franklin Elementary?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at Franklin Elementary.
How diverse is Franklin Elementary?
Franklin Elementary reports a student body of 65% White, 14% Hispanic, 2% Black, 8% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Franklin Elementary?
Franklin Elementary is overseen by Pullman School District in Whitman County.
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