Elementary Schools in Frankfort CUSD 168

The two elementary schools in Frankfort CUSD 168 serve different grade spans: Denning Elementary School serves PK–2, and Frankfort Intermediate School serves grades 3–6. They have similar enrollments, with 439 and 447 students, respectively. The most important finding is that Intermediate’s all-grades results remain below state levels, while Denning has no test scores supplied, so the data cannot identify an academic winner between the schools.

Among the available results, Intermediate stands out for sixth-grade ELA: 66% of students were proficient, 7 percentage points above the state. Third-grade math was another relative strength, 4 points above the state. Its broadest weakness was sixth-grade math, 12 points below the state; all-grades ELA and math were also below state results by 3 and 5 points. Denning cannot be placed above or below Intermediate academically. Its reported characteristics differ: Denning’s student-teacher ratio was 17.3:1 versus 14.9:1 at Intermediate, and its share of students free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025 was 47% versus 60%, a 14-point difference. Denning’s 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was also higher, at 21% versus 16%.

Intermediate’s all-grades results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose from 46% to 54%, a gain of 8 points, and math rose from 31% to 35%, a gain of 3 points. Its gaps to the state narrowed by 5 points in ELA and 2 points in math. Fifth-grade science was an exception: the school result fell by 1 point while the state rose by 7, widening the school’s state gap by 8 points. SchoolDigger lists Intermediate at the 36th percentile and two stars for 2025–2026; its percentile was 44 the prior year and 34 in 2023–2024. SchoolDigger rates the district 16th percentile, one star, and 617th of 738 districts.