NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools IN

Best-Resourced Schools in Franklin, IN

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

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8
Schools
5,119
Students
48.4/100
Avg Resource Index
16.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Franklin has more public-school enrollment than 56% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Franklin sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Franklin's 8 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Franklin's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 82nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 42nd percentile. The 40-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 44%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
82nd percentile
Teacher staffing
42nd percentile

Franklin Community High School accounts for 29.9% of all Franklin public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Franklin-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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Franklin school enrollment varies 4.8× across entities

Franklin school enrollment ranges from 319 students (lowest) to 1,531 students (highest), a spread of 1,212 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

Franklin student-teacher ratio is 16.1:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Franklin is typically wider than the Franklin-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Clark Elementary School 53
2. Needham Elementary School 53
3. Webb Elementary School 53
4. Creekside Elementary School 49
5. Custer Baker Intermediate School 48
6. Northwood Elementary School 48
7. Franklin Community Middle School 46
8. Franklin Community High School 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Franklin

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.

  1. 1 Clark Elementary School 67.0/100
  2. 2 Creekside Elementary School 34.3/100
  3. 3 Northwood Elementary School 33.6/100
  4. 4 Needham Elementary School 30.1/100
  5. 5 Franklin Community High School 29.7/100

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Which Franklin school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Clark Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Franklin schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Franklin, IN? ▼

Franklin has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,119 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.1:1.

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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.