Franklin Middle

Franklin Middle is one of the medium-sized junior highs in Green Bay, Wisconsin, operated by Green Bay Area Public School District, with 560 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 47% larger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Green Bay Area Public School District comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 18,722 students; Franklin Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Franklin Middle reports that the largest single group is White at 32%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 15% Black, 12% multiracial, 10% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Brown County's rate of about 39%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Franklin Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Brown County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,649 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Brown County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students), Franklin Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lincoln Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Franklin Middle. On composite proficiency, Franklin Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Franklin Middle has decreased 19%, going from 694 students in 2018 to 560 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 29% across the same window.

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