Franklin Middle

As a middle-of-the-pack middle school in Janesville, Wisconsin, Franklin Middle enrolls 486 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Janesville School District. Enrollment runs roughly 28% above the state mean of about 381.

Within Janesville School District, which oversees 22 schools and 9,355 students, Franklin Middle is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Franklin Middle shows that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 21% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 10% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Rock County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Rock County's rate of about 47%.

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 36.9%, the actual is 34.4%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Rock County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,673, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Rock County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,542 students), of which Franklin Middle is one.

ARISE Virtual Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Franklin Middle. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Franklin Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Franklin Middle has declined 24%, going from 638 students in 2018 to 486 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 67% to 54% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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