At $23,561 per pupil, Franklin School District ranks #105 of 191 Connecticut districts by per-pupil spending (Connecticut districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Franklin School District operates 1 public schools serving 187 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Connecticut. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $23,561 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 191 Connecticut districts by per-pupil spending. See how Connecticut compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 71.9% local, 23.1% state, and 5.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 9.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 81.6% White, 8.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Franklin Elementary School, enrolling 185 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 2.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (186 to 191 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.1 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $5,593,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 49% went to instruction, 29.8% to support services, and 0.7% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Franklin Elementary School accounts for 98.9% of all Franklin School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Franklin School District a distant remainder — means Franklin School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates 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.
Franklin School District chronic absenteeism rate is 9.7% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Franklin School District has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 187 students.
How much does Franklin School District spend per student?
Franklin School District spends $23,561 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Franklin School District?
Franklin School District students are 81.6% White, 8.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.