Summary:
ZIP code 98144 has one listed high school, Franklin High School, serving grades 9–12 in southeast Seattle. The school enrolls 1,277 students and is part of Seattle School District No. 1. More than half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the school reports a 19.6:1 student–teacher ratio. Because Franklin is the only high school in the ZIP code, there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the most useful context comes from comparing it with district and state results.
Franklin’s strongest academic area is English Language Arts. In 2025–2026, 71.37% of students were proficient, above the district’s 68.13% and the state’s 52.81%. Science proficiency was 43.52%, below both the district’s 65.01% and the state’s 50.95%, although science improved by 6.21 percentage points from the prior year. Mathematics is the clearest challenge: only 29.63% of students were proficient, compared with 60.24% districtwide and 43.11% statewide. Math proficiency increased just 0.65 percentage points year over year, indicating that this should be the school’s highest academic improvement priority.
Parents may also want to consider Franklin’s broader student-outcome indicators. The 2024–2025 graduation rate was 84.1%, slightly below the district’s 86.1% but above Washington’s 82.6%. Its 5.4% dropout rate was considerably lower than both the district’s 7.7% and the state’s 9.8%, suggesting relatively strong student retention. Franklin’s ranking also improved from the 44th percentile in 2024–2025 to the 60th percentile in 2025–2026, when its rating increased from two to three stars. Overall, the school shows encouraging progress and strong literacy outcomes, while math and science remain the areas where families should look for continued improvement.
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