Benjamin Franklin High School (Philadelphia)

This article is about the Franklin High School in Pennsylvania. For others of a similar name, see Franklin High School (disambiguation).
Franklin High School (Philadelphia)
Address
550 N Broad St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19130
United States
Information
Type Public
School district The School District of Philadelphia
Principal Gregory Hailey[1]
Enrollment 1166
Nickname Electrons

Benjamin Franklin High School is a public high school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

The school, located north of Center City, is a part of the School District of Philadelphia. Franklin serves several areas, including Fairmount, Spring Garden, the section of Northern Liberties south of Poplar Street, and the section of Old City north of Callowhill Street. Franklin also serves a section of the Chinatown area.[2]

Franklin is a mostly African American school.[3] In the late 1960s, there was a student-led effort to rename the school in honor of recently slain Malcolm X.[4] This effort officially failed, but some students still refer to the school by this name.[5]

Around 2005 Franklin began housing a charter school catering to Chinese Americans.[2] In addition, as part of an international studies academy, it added Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language for study in 2005. The new international studies focus attracted 40 new students from the Chinatown area.[3]

Feeder patterns

Feeder K-8 schools include:

Notable Alumni

   *David P. Richardson 
     -State Representative and 
       17th of November 1967 Philadelphia 
         School Board Demonstrator

School uniforms

Franklin doesn't require uniform at this present moment but there is a possibility of there being a uniform.


External links

References

  1. ↑ "School Profile". philasd.org. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  2. 1 2 Snyder, Susan. "Selling schools - to families, A new campaign touts 20 Center City sites. Its aim: Retain the middle class. Schools pitch aims at stemming flight of the middle class." Philadelphia Inquirer. Monday August 22, 2005. City-D A01 Local. Retrieved on November 8, 2011.
  3. 1 2 "China's clout echoes in classes, To spread the word on global needs, schools add Mandarin instruction. Paul Vallas hopes students join the crowd and learn a language spoken by 1.3 billion." Philadelphia Inquirer. Monday October 31, 2005. B01 Local News Philadelphia & its Suburbs. Retrieved on November 8, 2011.
  4. ↑ Stamp Honoring Malcolm Shows How Times Change
  5. ↑ A Philadelphia fencing prodigy
  6. ↑ "Bache-Martin School". Kids in Center City Philadelphia. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  7. ↑ "General Philip Kearny School". Kids in Center City Philadelphia. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Spring Garden School". Kids in Center City Philadelphia. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Laura Wheeler Waring School". Kids in Center City Philadelphia. Retrieved May 1, 2015.

Coordinates: 39°57′49″N 75°09′44″W / 39.9636°N 75.1621°W / 39.9636; -75.1621

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