NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Franklin, OH

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7 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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7
Schools
2,489
Students
38.7/100
Avg Resource Index
18.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Franklin has more public-school enrollment than 21% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Franklin's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Franklin's 7 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 0 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 19-point gap between Hunter Elementary School and Franklin High School shows the range hidden by Franklin'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 79%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
40th percentile
Teacher staffing
23rd percentile

Franklin High School accounts for 27.2% of all Franklin public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Franklin-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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 3.2× across entities

Franklin school enrollment ranges from 212 students (lowest) to 676 students (highest), a spread of 464 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 operates one school district — a single-district system

Franklin's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Franklin student-teacher ratio is 18.4:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Hunter Elementary School 51
2. William C Schenck Elementary School 41
3. Pennyroyal Elementary School 39
4. Anthony Wayne Elementary School 38
5. Franklin Junior High School 35
6. George H Gerke Elementary School 35
7. Franklin High School 32

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 William C Schenck Elementary School 39.5/100
  2. 2 George H Gerke Elementary School 39.2/100
  3. 3 Hunter Elementary School 35.5/100
  4. 4 Franklin Junior High School 31.0/100
  5. 5 Franklin High School 25.8/100

What do families ask about schools in Franklin?

Which Franklin school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Hunter Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Franklin schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Franklin, OH? ▼

Franklin has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,489 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.4:1.

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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.