Enrollment
260
Elementary
DISTRICT 356 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TACOMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530870001467
Franklin Elementary School
1402 S Lawrence St, Tacoma, WA 98405 · (253) 571-1400 · Pierce County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL260 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
159 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 47 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 54% larger than its 5th grade class (28).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
28.7%
WA avg 58.4% . +1.7pp since 2014
Math
25.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -12.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 13 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.7% | 25.5% |
| 2023-24 | 27.6% | 26.7% |
| 2022-23 | 43.3% | 28.2% |
| 2021-22 | 43.0% | 30.4% |
| 2018-19 | 42.9% | 31.1% |
| 2017-18 | 53.1% | 33.6% |
| 2016-17 | 48.5% | 36.8% |
| 2015-16 | 27.2% | 32.5% |
| 2014-15 | 27.0% | 38.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for Washington 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 Washington's top nor bottom 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 School
Franklin Elementary School's state test result (29.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Elementary School this school | 260 | 61.2% | 29.7% |
| Oakbrook Elementary School Lakewood | 285 | 61.8% | 41.5% |
| Whittier Elementary School Tacoma | 305 | 55.7% | 50.5% |
| Green Gables Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 281 | 58.0% | 45.3% |
| Delong Elementary School Tacoma | 349 | 62.8% | 46.5% |
| Elmhurst Elementary School TACOMA | 335 | 68.7% | 27.0% |
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 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #802 of 936 | #126 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.5% | #954 of 1,103 ▼ 38 | #127 of 142 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #964 of 1,102 ▲ 11 | #132 of 142 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -9.6pp | #39 of 928 | #8 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 260 | #1,037 of 1,268 | #141 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #211 of 1,085 | #19 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.5% | #102 of 1,088 | #42 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.2% | #427 of 1,169 | #50 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.0% | #435 of 778 | #53 of 91 |
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
260
-50 (-16%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 415
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 260 | 18.1 | 14.4:1 | 61% (159) |
| 2023-24 | 296 | 18.6 | 15.9:1 | 68% (201) |
| 2022-23 | 276 | 18.1 | 15.3:1 | 58% (161) |
| 2020-21 | 310 | 21 | 14.8:1 | 66% (205) |
| 2017-18 | 306 | 21.3 | 14.4:1 | 75% (230) |
| 2015-16 | 285 | 21 | 13.6:1 | 80% (228) |
| 2010-11 | 223 | 18 | 12.4:1 | 65% (144) |
| 2000-01 | 446 | 25 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 415 | 23 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (306 to 260); teachers down 15% (21.3 to 18.1).
About Franklin Elementary School
In Tacoma, Washington, Franklin Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school. It educates 260 students in pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Washington is about 380 students.
The 66 schools in Tacoma School District enroll 28,900 students altogether, Franklin Elementary School among them.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Franklin Elementary School. The largest is White students, at 35%. The next largest groups are 20% Hispanic, 20% multiracial, 17% Black, and 5% Pacific Islander. In Pierce County overall, about 64% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 76% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1 at Franklin Elementary School, with 18.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. On average, elementary schools in Washington have 17.3:1, compared with 14.4:1 here. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 61% of enrollment. On average, public schools in Pierce County report 50%.
Franklin Elementary School scores 29.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 39.2%.
Within Pierce County, the median household income is $99,564, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. In all, Pierce County has 287 public schools and roughly 138,462 students.
The closest public school to Franklin Elementary School is Grant Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away. Franklin Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 29.7% average proficiency ranks 6th among 9 nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Over 4 years, Franklin Elementary School's enrollment dropped 16%, to 260.
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Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Tacoma School District
- Stadium High SchoolHigh · 1,700 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,556 students
- Mount Tahoma High SchoolHigh · 1,410 students
- Dr. Dolores Silas High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 687 students
- Tacoma School of the ArtsHigh · 658 students
Other schools in Tacoma
- Stadium High SchoolHigh · 1,700 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,556 students
- Mount Tahoma High SchoolHigh · 1,410 students
- Dr. Dolores Silas High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Washington High SchoolHigh · 989 students
- Franklin Pierce High SchoolHigh · 977 students
Other Franklin Elementary schools
74 other US public schools in 22 states are named Franklin Elementary. Franklin Elementary School is the 59th largest of the 75.
- Franklin ElementarySpokane, WA · 428 students
- Franklin ElementaryPORT ANGELES, WA · 318 students
- Franklin ElementaryPullman, WA · 274 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolKEARNY, NJ · 950 students
- Franklin ElementaryElk Grove, CA · 932 students
Nearby schools
- Grant Elementary School0.9 mi · 378
- Hilltop Heritage Middle School0.9 mi · 447
- Foss High School0.9 mi · 599
- Stanley Elementary School1.0 mi · 325
- Bryant Montessori Middle School1.0 mi · 135
- Bryant Montessori School1.0 mi · 313
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Franklin Elementary School?
Franklin Elementary School enrolls approximately 260 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Franklin Elementary School serve?
Franklin Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Franklin Elementary School have?
Franklin Elementary School employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Franklin Elementary School?
Student demographics at Franklin Elementary School are roughly 35% White, 20% Hispanic, 17% Black, 3% Asian, 20% Two or more.
What district is Franklin Elementary School in?
Franklin Elementary School is part of Tacoma School District.
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