Public school / Primary
Ben Franklin Elementary School
Grand Forks, North Dakota
- NCES ID
- 380813000252
- District
- Grand Forks 1
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ben Franklin Elementary School is a public primary school in Grand Forks, North Dakota, run by Grand Forks 1. It enrols 328 students — the 61668th largest of 532 public schools in North Dakota.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
328
Teachers
29.0
Students per teacher
11.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
32.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Grand Forks 1
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Red River High School1,137 students
- 2Central High School1,093 students
- 3Discovery Elementary School557 students
- 4Schroeder Middle School549 students
- 5South Middle School549 students
- 6Valley Middle School513 students
- 7J Nelson Kelly Elementary School476 students
- 8Lake Agassiz Elementary School426 students
- Enrollment+86.4%
- Teachers+107.1%
- Students per teacher−2.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+3.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory