Franklin Elementary

Franklin Elementary is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, run under Milwaukee School District, with 311 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Milwaukee School District comprises 155 schools with combined enrollment of 65,835 students; Franklin Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Franklin Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at Franklin Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Franklin Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 19.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 6.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Milwaukee County shows median household earnings sit near $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Franklin Elementary is one.

Andrew S Douglas Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Franklin Elementary. On composite proficiency, Franklin Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 13.3%.

Franklin Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Franklin Elementary's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 328 (now 311). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 1% to 5% over that span.

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