Original Research by School Decision on Franklin Co Detention Center 6-8
Franklin County Detention Center 6-8 is an alternative middle school located in Benton, Illinois, serving grades six through eight. The school operates as part of Benton CCSD 47 and is housed at an address on East Washington Street in Benton, the small county seat of Franklin County in Southern Illinois.
This is a detention facility school, meaning it serves students who are incarcerated in the Franklin County Detention Center. The data available shows zero reported enrollment across all grade levels, zero students in each racial and ethnic category, and no reported figures for free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility, students with individualized education plans, or English learners. These fields read as reported zeros rather than missing data, which is consistent with how such facilities sometimes appear in state reporting systems. A parent or guardian should verify current enrollment and program operations directly with the school or detention facility administration, as the state data may lag or not reflect real-time circumstances.
No state academic assessment results, graduation rates, chronic absenteeism rates, or attendance data are available for this school. This absence reflects both the nature of the setting and the fact that state testing requirements typically do not apply to schools serving students in detention, whose enrollment is transient and whose circumstances differ fundamentally from traditional school populations. For similar reasons, no comparison to other Franklin County districts is meaningful.
The detention center's location in Benton places it in a small industrial and healthcare-anchored city with a population around the small side for a county seat, where employment centers on manufacturing, health care, and service work. Housing values in the local zip code are modest relative to state and national benchmarks. The broader school district, Benton CCSD 47, has not reported recent parent-relevant policy shifts or referenda with lasting impact in publicly available sources.
A student attending this school is being educated while in custody at the detention center. Parents or guardians should contact the school directly to learn about current programming, course offerings, counseling services, reentry planning, and coordination with the home school district, as these details are essential to understanding what educational pathway and support structure the facility provides and how it will position a student to return to community schooling.
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