Student Services

Kalan Hoskins is the School Counselor at Royal Elementary School. She has a Master’s degree in Counseling and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from East Carolina University. She furthered her training and education by becoming a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a National Certified Counselor (NCC). She began working as a school counselor in 2001 and joined Franklin County Schools and Royal Elementary School in 2018.

Mr. Thorp lives with his wife of 29 years and one cat. He has two grown children, a son in Washington, DC and a daughter in Dunn, NC and one 3 year old grandson. Mr. Thorp has worked as an elementary school educator for the past 24 years. He began teaching 8 years in Prince Georges County MD before moving to NC and teaching in Wake County for another 8 years. He has now worked at Royal Elementary in Franklin County for the past 7 years, 6 of them in second grade. He is excited to continue his education career as the Reading Intervention teacher at Royal.