# Franklin Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/franklin-elementary-merced

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062460003689`
- **School name**: Franklin Elementary
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95348
- **Address**: 2936 Franklin Rd.
- **District**: Merced City Elementary (LEAID `0624600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–3
- **Coordinates**: 37.32755, -120.54022
- **Phone**: (209)385-6623

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 602
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.6%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 46.4% proficient — 47 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.1% (130 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.7% (150 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (6 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.4% — 48 students
- **English Learners**: 16.6% — 94 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,923
- **Federal share**: $2,765
- **State + local share**: $17,158
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 568
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,734,481
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 74.4%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,443,783

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,714
- **Poverty rate**: 20.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,373
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.0 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 19
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.04 miles (REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF MERCED BROWNFIELD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MERCED
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Joe Stefani** — 0.3 mi away, 17.6% (this school: 21.1%)
- **McSwain Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 10.8% (this school: 21.1%)
- **Buhach Colony High** — 2.4 mi away, 3.26% (this school: 21.1%)
- **Leontine Gracey Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 20.1% (this school: 21.1%)
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 2.8 mi away, 16.6% (this school: 21.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **McSwain Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 51% (this school: 46.4%)
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 46.8% (this school: 46.4%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 57% (this school: 46.4%)
- **Merced High** — 3.7 mi away, 47.2% (this school: 46.4%)
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 4.2 mi away, 49.2% (this school: 46.4%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/franklin-elementary-merced
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/franklin-elementary-merced/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/franklin-elementary-merced/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/franklin-elementary-merced/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/franklin-elementary-merced/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/franklin-elementary-merced/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/franklin-elementary-merced/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/franklin-elementary-merced/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/franklin-elementary-merced/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/franklin-elementary-merced/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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