Summary:
ZIP code 85007 has five schools serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12: three schools serving PK–8, one high school serving grades 9–12, and one school serving grades 7–12. Among the four schools with reported 2025–26 results, average proficiency was 32% in English language arts (ELA) and 23% in mathematics, compared with state results of 41% and 33%. The clearest standout is Metropolitan Arts Institute, with the area’s highest reported all-grades ELA proficiency at 60%.
Metropolitan Arts Institute stands out in ELA, while Franklin Police and Fire High School leads in mathematics: Metropolitan Arts’ 60% ELA result is 19 percentage points above the state and 34 points above Franklin’s 26%; Franklin’s 33% mathematics result matches the state and is 6 points above Metropolitan Arts’ 27%. At the lower end of reported results, Capitol Elementary School and Mary Mcleod Bethune School each report 21% ELA proficiency, 20 points below the state; their mathematics results are 17% and 15%, respectively, versus 33% statewide. Grade 11 results show the high schools’ different strengths: Metropolitan Arts leads Franklin by 40 points in ELA, while Franklin leads by 6 points in mathematics.
SchoolDigger rankings show different longer-term paths for the high schools, not a shared upward trend: Franklin moved from the 41st percentile in 2023–24 to the 43rd in 2025–26, while Metropolitan Arts moved from the 83rd to the 66th; both improved from the prior year, but their two-school average was still 8 percentile points below its earlier level. Staffing figures offer context but no simple explanation: Metropolitan Arts has the highest student–teacher ratio, 16.6, alongside the strongest ELA result, while Paul Dunbar Lawrence School has the lowest ratio, 8.9, and the smallest enrollment, 125. Paul Dunbar has no reported test results, and free/reduced-lunch rates are unavailable, so the available results do not cover every school or provide those measures for comparison.
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