The Frankton area has been experiencing population growth through in-migration as well as increasing birth rates within the population. Frankton has one of the higher numbers of children per family in the state. There has also been a pattern of in-migration. According to economic development experts in Frankton, in-migration is occurring at both ends of the economic spectrum--with professionals who are leaving nearby large cities and with Asian refugees who were primarily agricultural peasants in their country of origin. In the last decade, Frankton's Asian population has gone from under one percent to just over ten percent of the population. As a result, there are now seventy-six different languages spoken in the Frankton school district. The district states that fifty percent of the students entering the school system are not native English speakers.
A state university campus and a community college are located in Frankton. The community college, with a Fall enrollment of about fifteen thousand, is known statewide to be active in customized training; in addition, the college supports a short-term job training center that provides noncredit courses of twenty to thirty weeks, largely for JTPA and GAIN (Greater Avenues for Independence) clients. Another community college located to the northeast also serves the Frankton labor market, and the school district located just north of the city operates an area vocational school, serving both adults and secondary school students, that is used by some employers.