Franklin Elementary School

We began our attendance 4 years ago. I have five children all a grade apart. We came from the Eureka school district and found that students in this school are not nice, in-fact they are wild and bullys. The parents are very clickish and the children start to get tainted by their parents around 4th to 5th grade. I love to be involved but find myself hessitating because of self involved and clickish parents. I still volunteer, but it's uncomfortable. We became heavily involved in sports such as wrestling, football, baseball and basketball in hopes to fit in. It is very hard to make friends in this school for both the kids and parents especially from 5th grade up. Our family have never had issues like this before. We are very social! We were warned about this school before attending and figured we've never had a problem fitting in and make friends- not the case here. We struggled with teacher communication especially in the 5th grade. There seems to be a lot of politics going on. The principal was there one day and everything was fine and the next day gone for good and no explanation was given to us parents- what? That made me angry and worried as to why.
--Submitted by a parent

I have to agree with the parent who gave it two stars. The parent that recently commented on that rating is probably on of the parents that RUNS the school. My child, unfortunately, was a student there up until this year and I did not realize what my daughter was missing until I moved out of state and disenrolled her...the teachers are nice and have good standards but rate the child by what the parents do for them. Seriously, Loomis School District needs to start taking back this school to keep dropout and disenrollment rates down....and yes, the school has lost 100 of kids in enrollment the last 3 years.
--Submitted by a parent

The person who gave the two stars has no idea what they are talking about. They must have wanted to comment on a different Franklin School, this one is in Loomis. We have no football players or cheerleaders and our student population is on the rise. Our parents are HUGELY involved.
--Submitted by a parent

The two stars are for the wonderful teachers that we have encountered at Franklin.The blank stars are for the lack of creativity, leadership and extracurricular activities. The other posts talk about all the wonderful parent involvement but unless you are a parent of on the many football and cheer kids- then there is not alot for you to do. We must question why the enrollment has dropped around 40% in the past two school years~ especially if your child is currently enrolled at Franklin
--Submitted by a parent

I've been a student at this school since early 09, and I'm less than impressed. I've moved around quite a bit, certainly more than any other student I've met there, and at a all my other schools i was in some sort of advanced program. The ONLY advanced program Franklin offers is in math. There is almost no computer usage, very little researching, and our home library is almost as big as the schools! Because of the schools declining budget, we have lots of free time and in what little time we spend actually learning, there is no researching, no creativity and very little student presentations. in the time I've been there, we've had maybe three group projects in which we had to study, read, write, print and present. There also seem to be only two extracurriculars, newspaper and band, both during school hours. Maybe I'm just used to city schools.
--Submitted by a student

Great school! They have a great garden docent program and big advocates of teaching children health and nutrition. Several enrichment programs in place. Having moved from a metropolitan area, the friendliness and acceptance has been wonderful for my kids. It is a great place to learn.
--Submitted by a parent

This school is great for you and your child ONLY if you can volunteer and be there during school hours several days a week. As parent involvement is crucial for most schools, I disagree with the philosophy of this school that the students who get the 'perks' or educational rewards are the ones that have the parents 'in' with the school. There is ALOT of politics at Franklin and you must be available to play the game. If you are a two-parent working family, or single parent or not of caucasian decent, have a child with a disability, this probably is not the school for you. Just my opnion.
--Submitted by a parent

Franklin is in a semi-rural location and is very friendly, clean and safe. It's a great place for average students. But if you've got a bright or even gifted child, Franklin doesn't have much to offer. In addition, though some of these posts comment about the high level of parent participation, we're not seeing anything higher than other schools, unless they are referring to the extracurricular football and cheer program.
--Submitted by a parent

Great school! We now have a gate program in place and a Foundation is in the infancy stage. Love the atmosphere, teachers and the parent volunteers. The fundraising is now raising top dollar through various auctions. Can't say enough about the quality of life in this rural community.
--Submitted by a parent

My 10 year-old daughter attended this school. I have been consistently unimpressed by the parent-teacher communication (teachers refuse to use e-mail or online rescources, and are unavailable outside work hours) The library lacks new material as well as much classic material. Homework has largely been fill-in worksheets that serve little function except to use up time, and require little independent thought or creativity on the child's part.
--Submitted by a parent