Summary:
Franklin, Minnesota has just one school in the available data — Cedar Mountain Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–5 with 171 students, located at 231 4th Ave E and part of the Cedar Mountain School District — and the area summary lists no middle, high, or alternative schools in the city, so families here have no local middle/high transition or alternative programming data to review.
For parents weighing this school, the strongest signal is math. Cedar Mountain Elementary's all-grade math proficiency was 53.7% in 2025–2026, above the district's 41.7% and the state's 44.9%, and in 2024–2025 it was 67.07% versus 43.43% district and 45.21% state. The school also has a favorable student/teacher ratio of 9.6 and serves a majority economically disadvantaged population, with 54.97% free/reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025. Reading is more mixed: overall reading was 43.9% in 2025–2026, essentially even with the district's 43.6% but below the state's 48.6%. At grade level, math was above the state in 4th and 5th grades, while 3rd-grade reading was nearly even with the state.
The main concerns are the school's ranking decline and science results. After ranking at the 70th percentile with 4 stars in both 2023–2024 and 2024–2025, the school fell to the 46th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, dropping from 260th to 471st statewide. Science is the weakest subject, at 17.4% in 2025–2026 versus 25.5% state and 20.83% versus 26.15% in 2024–2025 — since science is tested only in 5th grade, this points to a 5th-grade science concern. 4th-grade reading was also low at 36.7% versus 48.8% state. Math, reading, and science all declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by far more than statewide changes, so the key question is whether 2025–2026 was a one-year dip or the start of a trend.
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