Benjamin Franklin High School (Philadelphia)

Not to be confused with Benjamin Franklin Academics Plus School or Franklin Learning Center.
Franklin High School
Address
Map
550 N Broad Street

Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
19130

United States
Information
TypePublic
School districtThe School District of Philadelphia
PrincipalGregory Hailey[1]
Staff42.50 (FTE)[2]
Enrollment466 (2022–23)[2]
Student to teacher ratio10.96[2]
Color(s)   
NicknameElectrons

Benjamin Franklin High School is a public high school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school, located north of Center City, is a part of the School District of Philadelphia. Franklin serves sections of North Philadelphia and Center City.

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.[6] 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]

  1. ^ "School Profile". philasd.org. Archived from the original on 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  2. ^ a b c "Franklin Benjamin HS". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "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." The Philadelphia Inquirer. Monday October 31, 2005. B01 Local News Philadelphia & its Suburbs. Retrieved on November 8, 2011. See clipping at Newspapers.com
  4. ^ Moore, Acel. "Stamp Honoring Malcolm Shows How Times Change." The Philadelphia Inquirer. February 23, 1999. Retrieved on December 12, 2016.
  5. ^ "A Philadelphia fencing prodigy". Archived from the original on 2015-08-17. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
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