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Enrollment
486
Middle
DISTRICT 607 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JANESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550702000759
Franklin Middle
450 N Crosby Ave, Janesville, WI 53548 · (608) 743-6000 · Rock County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL486 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Wisconsin public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public middle schools
Student : Teacher
9.9:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
323 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 166 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 171 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 149 | 31% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 54% · 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
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
31.8%
WI avg 53.1% . -3.1pp since 2023
Math
30.7%
WI avg 54.8% . -0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.8% | 30.7% |
| 2023-24 | 34.9% | 31.2% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. 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
34.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.9%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin'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 Middle
Franklin Middle's state test result (34.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Middle this school | 486 | 66.5% | 34.4% |
| Edison Middle Janesville | 587 | 61.0% | 50.3% |
| Frank Lloyd Wright Intermediate West Allis | 902 | 61.9% | 42.8% |
| Cudahy Middle Cudahy | 247 | 62.8% | 35.3% |
| Sabish Middle Fond du Lac | 445 | 57.3% | 53.7% |
| Maplewood Middle Menasha | 676 | 55.9% | 44.0% |
Matched among Wisconsin middle 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 Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Rock County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.4% | #299 of 323 | #10 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.7% | #302 of 327 no change | #10 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.8% | #307 of 327 ▼ 14 | #10 of 12 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 486 | #126 of 389 | #7 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.9:1 | #8 of 265 | #1 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.3% | #35 of 265 | #3 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.5% | #24 of 323 | #2 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.8% | #27 of 176 | #2 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
486
-159 (-25%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 720
Student : Teacher
9.9:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 486 | 49.3 | 9.9:1 | 66% (323) |
| 2023-24 | 516 | 47.2 | 10.9:1 | 70% (362) |
| 2022-23 | 539 | 48.2 | 11.2:1 | 68% (364) |
| 2020-21 | 645 | 51 | 12.7:1 | 69% (447) |
| 2017-18 | 638 | 48.7 | 13.1:1 | 60% (380) |
| 2015-16 | 561 | 43 | 13.1:1 | 63% (354) |
| 2010-11 | 557 | 44 | 12.7:1 | 60% (334) |
| 2000-01 | 702 | 58 | 12.1:1 | 19% (135) |
| 1990-91 | 720 | 58 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (638 to 486); teachers up 1% (48.7 to 49.3).
About Franklin Middle
Students in Janesville, Wisconsin, attend Franklin Middle, a medium-sized middle school. The school counts 486 students across grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 28% larger than the 381 average for middle schools in Wisconsin.
Janesville School District oversees Franklin Middle and 21 other schools, with 9,355 students in total.
By race and ethnicity, Franklin Middle is 54% White. The school is also 21% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 10% Black, and 4% Asian. That is lower than the 82% White share among all Rock County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Franklin Middle belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 64%.
Franklin Middle counts 49.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 9.9 students for each one. Among middle schools in Wisconsin, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 47% average for public schools in Rock County, the school's rate is higher.
Franklin Middle is graded D by allk12, scoring above 13% of Wisconsin public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Franklin Middle is 2.5 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 34.4% actual, 36.9% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Wisconsin.
Among Rock County residents, median household income is about $75,673, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 65 public schools in Rock County, with a combined enrollment of about 25,542.
The shortest distance from Franklin Middle to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to ARISE Virtual Academy. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Franklin Middle ranks 4th in a group of 6 nearby schools.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Small.
Federal counts put enrollment at 645 in 2020-21 and 486 in 2024-25, a 25% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 12.7:1 to 9.9:1.
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Rock County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
164,350
Census ACS
Median income
$75,673
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
65
25,542 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Janesville School District
- Craig HighHigh · 1,400 students
- Parker HighHigh · 1,272 students
- Marshall MiddleMiddle · 747 students
- Edison MiddleMiddle · 587 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryElementary · 412 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 410 students
Other schools in Janesville
- Craig HighHigh · 1,400 students
- Parker HighHigh · 1,272 students
- Marshall MiddleMiddle · 747 students
- Edison MiddleMiddle · 587 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryElementary · 412 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 410 students
Other Franklin Middle schools
15 other US public schools in 13 states are named Franklin Middle. Franklin Middle is the 8th largest of the 16.
- Franklin MiddleGreen Bay, WI · 560 students
- Franklin MiddleReisterstown, MD · 1,150 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolYakima, WA · 848 students
- Franklin MiddleChantilly, VA · 798 students
- FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOLPOCATELLO, ID · 718 students
Nearby schools
- ARISE Virtual Academy0.0 mi · 119
- Madison Elementary0.2 mi · 307
- Parker High0.7 mi · 1,272
- Washington Elementary0.7 mi · 410
- Rock River Charter School1.4 mi · 267
- Wilson Elementary1.6 mi · 256
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin MiddleHow many students attend Franklin Middle?
Franklin Middle enrolls approximately 486 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Franklin Middle serve?
Franklin Middle serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Franklin Middle?
Approximately 9.9:1 students per teacher at Franklin Middle.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Franklin Middle?
At Franklin Middle, the student body is approximately 54% White, 21% Hispanic, 10% Black, 4% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Franklin Middle?
Franklin Middle is overseen by Janesville School District in Rock County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.