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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Benjamin Franklin Intermediate

Colma, California

NCES ID
061887002278
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Benjamin Franklin Intermediate is a public middle school in Colma, California, run by Jefferson Elementary. It enrols 500 students — the 37242nd largest of 10,418 public schools in California.

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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

500students

37242nd nationally, tied with 142

Teachers

21.0FTE

62587th nationally, tied with 2,266

Students per teacher

23.8students

87775th nationally, tied with 198

Free or reduced-price lunch

50.6%percent

49926th nationally, tied with 98

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.

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Within Jefferson Elementary

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Thomas R. Pollicita Middle607 students
  2. 2Fernando Rivera Intermediate502 students
  3. 3Benjamin Franklin Intermediate500 students
  4. 4Susan B. Anthony Elementary448 students
  5. 5Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elementary344 students
  6. 6Westlake Elementary330 students
  7. 7John F. Kennedy Elementary317 students
  8. 8Marjorie H. Tobias Elementary315 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: California median across 10,418 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+5.5%
  • Teachers0.0%
  • Students per teacher+7.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−25.5%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.