NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Franklin Park, IL

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

5 public K-12 schools in Franklin Park from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

3,094

Students

39.8/100

Avg Resource Index

13:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Franklin Park has more public-school enrollment than 30% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. East Leyden High School enrolls 59.5% of Franklin Park's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Franklin Park's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 14-point gap between North Elem School and Hester Jr High School shows the range hidden by Franklin Park's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment: Top 70%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 45th percentile
Teacher staffing: 79th percentile

East Leyden High School accounts for 59.5% of all Franklin Park public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Franklin Park a distant remainder — means Franklin Park-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Franklin Park school enrollment varies 9.2× across entities

Franklin Park school enrollment ranges from 199 students (lowest) to 1,840 students (highest), a spread of 1,641 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Franklin Park student-teacher ratio is 13.0:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	North Elem School	46	199	Combined	Franklin Park Sd 84
2.	East Leyden High School	42	1,840	high	Leyden Chsd 212
3.	Dan H Pietrini Elem School	42	242	Combined	Franklin Park Sd 84
4.	Passow Elementary School	37	387	Combined	Franklin Park Sd 84
5.	Hester Jr High School	32	426	middle	Franklin Park Sd 84

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Franklin Park

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which Franklin Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

North Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Franklin Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 46/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Franklin Park, IL? ▼

Franklin Park has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,094 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.