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 28 years and one dog and a cat. He has two grown children, a son in Washington, DC and a daughter in Dunn, NC. Mr. Thorp has worked as an elementary school educator for the past 23 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 begin the next phase of his education career as a Reading Intervention teacher at Royal.