Fran Fruzen Intermediate

Fran Fruzen Intermediate is a middle-of-the-pack middle school in Beloit, Wisconsin, run under Beloit School District. The school teaches 490 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% larger than the state mean of about 381.

Within Beloit School District, which oversees 12 schools and 4,958 students, Fran Fruzen Intermediate is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Fran Fruzen Intermediate lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 26% White, 21% Black, 12% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Fran Fruzen Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Rock County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fran Fruzen Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 23.4%, a residual of -9.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Rock County) records that median household income runs about $75,673, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Fran Fruzen Intermediate is one of 65 public schools in Rock County (combined enrollment of about 25,542 students).

Nearest neighbor: Merrill Elementary, around 1.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fran Fruzen Intermediate comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 641 students in 2018 compared to 490 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 33% to 26%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.