The Franklin, MA Public School System is highly regarded and offers top quality public schooling. The Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School in Franklin ranks in the top ten of all public schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in many performance standards.
That public school excellence exists in a community offering relatively affordable housing is nothing short of amazing! The combination of quality schools and good housing choices at attractive prices make Franklin a very popular choice for home buyers.
The content presented in this section of 02038.com on the Franklin Public Schools will give you the information you need to see how well Franklin schools serve the educational needs of children living in this pleasant, thriving community.
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[post_content] => Franklin, MA celebrated the upcoming start of construction of the new Franklin High School with a ground breaking ceremony held earlier this week at the site of the new school.
Beautiful day for the ground breaking ceremony
A warm fall sun shone from beautiful blue skies . . .
as shovels full of dirt were tossed and . . .
the Franklin High Lyricals and Pep Band performed for onlookers.
Video of events
Speeches were made by a number of politicians, the chairs of both the school board and school building committee, and the executive director of the state School Building Authority.
Here is a video of some of the day’s events, including some of the notable comments presented by Tom Mercer, the chair of the Franklin School Building Committee:
Highlights of the new High School
Construction will begin later this month with occupancy of the 306,543 gross square foot facility scheduled for Fall 2014.
With a designated enrollment of 1,650 students, the school will cost approximately $86.7 million. Franklin’s share of the cost is projected to be approximately $47 million with Massachusetts picking up the rest of the tab – quite a bargain for Franklin!
The facility will be home to state-of-the-art instructional labs that will accommodate all the major sciences including chemistry, physics and biology. The deplorable science labs at the current high school presented an especially compelling reason to approve the new school.
Coupled with the labs will be innovative long-term science and research project rooms designed to enhance instruction and encourage collaborative learning.
There will also be a beautiful 800+ seat auditorium, bringing with it significant upgrades to and expansion of practice and storage space for drama, band and choral programs.
The new high school in Franklin, MA was very much needed and will be an educational showpiece for the town for years to come!
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[post_content] => There are a number of websites maintained by the Town of Franklin, MA to help you learn about about the excellent schools in town.
The first site is an excellent, comprehensive site for the Franklin, MA Public Schools:
The “go to” site for information on Franklin, MA public schools, this site offers detailed information about the system’s planning, administration, physical facilities. It has deep, rich and constantly evolving content.
The next site is the town-hosted page for the Franklin School Committee:
The site gives you an informative look at the functioning of school system, negotiations with unions and issues facing school policymakers.
The last site is a blog maintained by the Franklin School Committee:
The archived posts on this blog will give you a detailed review of the policy concerns and opinions of School Committee members, both past and present, and guest posters.
Together, these sites will give you a good working knowledge of what the Franklin,MA Public School system has to offer!
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[post_content] => Home buyers often want to be able to compare public school systems so they can buy a home in a community whose schools will offer the best education for their children.
- Compare Reliable School Info
But it can be surprisingly difficult to access unbiased, reliable sources of information on public and private schools throughout Massachusetts. There are so many websites that claim to be authoritative guides to the quality of the educations offered at public and private schools in the US. A lot of these sites exist primarily as advertising platforms. Be aware that many sites contain incorrect and outdated information.
Here are links to some quality school information and comparison sites that maintain valid, quality data:
School district profiles
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education collects a variety of data from schools and districts in the state, a lot of which is published as a School or District Profile.
The official Profiles are very authoritative and give you in-depth data that you can use to compare school systems. Directories, reports and people from individual organizations can also be found here as well.
MCAS test results
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts administers what are called the MCAS test to assess the academic performance of students, individual schools, and school districts. The annual tests are given on a variety of subjects to students in various grade levels, starting with the third grade. Test results for secondary school students are used to judge each student’s eligibility to earn a high school diploma.
MCAS test results are included by Massachusetts in the Profiles described above and are a good way to evaluate how well a school or a district is performing. But the Commonwealth does not publish MCAS results in a format that allows easy comparison between individual schools and school districts.
That's where third party sites such as Boston.com come in very handy.
Boston.com re-publishes the MCAS results in a way that ranks the top-performing schools in the Bay State. This makes it really easy to judge the relative strengths of schools and school districts.
Good school ranking sites
Below are some other sites that are safe to use and provide reliable information on individual schools and school districts:
National Center for Education Statistics
Great Schools
The links above lead to sites that provide loads of reliable data and rankings for individual schools within districts as well as data and rankings of school districts throughout the state.
So check out these sites - you'll be pleased with how well Franklin, MA public schools compare with other school districts in Massachusetts!
Beware of stealth sites
There are so many websites that purport to review and rank the educations offered at public and private schools in the US. A lot of these sites exist primarily as advertising platforms.
You'll find a lot of these "stealth sites" when you look for community and school information on the Web.
These stealth sites generally are created by "lead aggregators" who want to collect your contact information and sell you as a lead to home repair contractors, real estate agents and mortgage brokers.
I won't mention any company names, but these re-sellers of personal information have created an amazing number of attractive and seemingly helpful school profile and community data sites. These sites sometimes contain garbled and out-of-date information and uniformly exist to solicit and sell your contact information and personal details. So be very careful with many of the "school sites" you'll find lurking on the Web!
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[post_content] => Voters in Franklin, MA have overwhelmingly approved construction of the much-needed new Franklin High School. In a town-wide vote held today, residents approved a $47 million debt exclusion to fund the town’s share of the estimated $104.5 million cost of the gorgeous new facility.
Ready in 2014
The new school will be ready for occupancy August 2014.
The facility will be located near the current high school which eventually will be torn down.
Beautiful complex
The facility will be a fully furnished and equipped 21st century high school. In addition to the school, there will be an 830-seat auditorium/theater
and a 17,700-square-foot gym with 6,000-square-feet-indoor walking track.
Construction is slated to start in the fall 2012.
Replaces worn-out school complex
The existing High School is approximately 40 years old and in deplorable shape. Building the new school was a true no-brainer!
This vote is a major plus for Franklin and is something all town residents should be very proud of!
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[post_content] => The annual fun fair fundraiser for the Helen Keller Elementary School in Franklin, MA was held recently under blue skies. It was a wonderful opportunity to reach out to the Keller community and have some fun.
Lots of kids had fun
Turnout was strong for the:
games . . .
bounce houses . . .
face painting . . .
and food.
Video of the fun fair
Here’s a short video of happenings at the fun fair:
Thanks to all who helped create some nice memories for the kids while raising needed money for their education at the same time!
You can click the hotlink to learn more about the public schools of Franklin, MA.
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[post_content] => Today was the first day of school for the public school system in Franklin, Massachusetts.
The weather was clear and warm, more like the middle of summer instead of September 1.
Video of student arrivals for first day of school
Below is a short video of how the day started at the Helen Keller Elementary School in Franklin, MA:
Lots of proud parents and excited kids!
Franklin has highly rated public schools
Did you know that Franklin, Massachusetts has wonderful public schools?
To learn more about the Franklin, MA public school system click the link.
Click the link to see why Family Circle Magazine named Franklin one of the “Top Ten Places to Raise a Family” in the United States!
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[post_content] => Did you know that Franklin, MA used to have a street car line? Or that Main Street in the downtown area was once home to a Stop & Shop grocery store?
The above photo shows the old Franklin street car line in action in the early 1900s!
Above is the Stop & Shop on Main Street, Franklin, Massachusetts back around 1940. The store is now an anchor tenant at a large shopping mall in Franklin near Exit 17 of Route 495. The mall is just part of the wonderful shopping available to Franklin residents.
Vintage Franklin photos in new book
There are lots of Franklin facts and trivia interspersed amid a treasure trove of old photographs waiting for you in the charming new book Franklin Then and Now.
Written by Franklin resident Alan R. Earls and published by Arcadia Publishing in 2009, Franklin Then and Now is a must-own for anyone interested in the history of Franklin, MA. You can buy a copy directly from the publisher’s website or at Amazon.com, Borders.com and other book retailers.
Photos give context for familiar Franklin places
There are quite of number of 'then and now' pictures in the book. These photos give intriguing insights into why certain instantly recognizable Franklin buildings and street scenes look the way they do now.
And you may be shocked at how different Franklin was in years gone by – it is a very eye opening experience seeing photos of long-lost Franklin buildings and forgotten businesses in settings that you drive by nearly every day.
Lost buildings and the recently rural
Sadly, many of the photos in the book document the beautiful buildings in Franklin that have been lost to fire or demolition.
On the other hand you'll see some surprisingly recent photos of bucolic simplicity in Franklin where now there are strip malls and office buildings.
Click here to learn more about Franklin, Massachusetts and see quite a number of photos of Franklin taken by me over the years.
The importance of public schools in Franklin, MA
Franklin has an excellent public school system.
One thing that caught my eye in Franklin Then and Now was how large and substantial some of the old public school buildings were in Franklin.
It is instructive that these structures were gifts to the town by prominent residents.
These gifts of school buildings indicate how highly valued public education has been in Franklin in generations past.
This should give encouragement to those today who support maintaining adequate funding for a vigorous, top-performing Franklin public school system.
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[post_content] => Excited children met new teachers and greeted old friends this morning in Franklin as classes resumed at the Franklin, MA public schools.
The first day of school in Franklin got off to a great start under sparkling blue skies.
No tears were in evidence although this parent felt a bit emotional when it was time to say goodbye to his nine year old.
Franklin, Massachusetts public schools enjoy a reputation for academic excellence and offer a rich array of educational and athletic programs.
Franklin students score very well on the Commonwealth’s MCAS tests; test scores at the Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School often place the school among the top 10 public schools in the entire state!
So there's a lot to like about the public schools in Franklin, MA!
Click the link to see 100s of homes for sale in Franklin, MA and surrounding communities.
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[post_content] => The Franklin, MA Public Schools offer a wonderful summer program of academics, sports and fun activities for children of all ages. The summer program speaks volumes about the extraordinarily high quality of academics, sports and staff at the Franklin Public School system.
Registration is open to Franklin residents and non-residents alike. The summer program starts with pre-kindergarteners and extends its offerings to students in the high school years.
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You can download the 35 page summer program catalog by clicking the image above.
Here’s a brief recap of the summer programs offered by the Franklin Public Schools:
• Star
The Star program is for children getting ready to enter kindergarten through the 5th grade.
Offerings are divided into two sub-groups: Academic and Enrichment.
The academic offerings are classroom-based and serve as an introduction for students to their next grade level.
The 58 Enrichment offerings focus more fun and hands on involvement in variety of intellectual and physical activities ranging from movie making, web design, inventing, music and acting, and cooking to soccer and backyard sports. Check out the catalog . . . there’s a whole lot more to Star!
• Gianormous
The Gianormous program is for children entering grades 5 – 8.
This program features a series of week-long sessions each with its own theme. Each week’s session includes a field trip.
Themes for 2009 include Computers and Technology (“Tech Know How” with a field trip to MIT), Movie Making (“Hello to Hollywood” with a field trip to Emerson College’s television and radio studios),and Science (“Science is Everywhere” with a field trip to Georges Island in Boston Harbor).
• The High School Experience
The High School Experience is for children entering the 9th grade.
This is a very good program covering the many aspects of the sometimes-challenging transition to high school. Children get to meet faculty and staff and learn how to be more effective students in their new environment.
Additional summer programs feature varied and rich offerings in music, art, sports and high school academics.
Fees for all these summer programs are affordable.
Participating in the summer program offered by the Franklin Public School System is a smart way to keep your child active and mentally and physically engaged during the long summer months ahead!
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[post_content] => You may be pleased (and a bit surprised) to learn that the high-performing Franklin, MA public school system produces such good results for a very reasonable amount of money spent per pupil.
Look at the figures in the chart below:
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You can see on that chart that, on a per-pupil basis, the Franklin, MA public school systems spends LESS than many other school systems in the region.
In FY 2007, the Franklin, MA public school system spent roughly $9,500 per pupil enrolled. Compare that to the approximately $10,200 per pupil spent by the the Town of Bellingham, MA public school system, or the $11,100 per pupil expenditure made by the public schools in the Town of Hopkinton, MA.
So Franklin, MA taxpayers get very good value for their public education dollar, especially given the generally excellent education offered by the Franklin, MA public school system.
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[post_content] => Franklin, MA celebrated the upcoming start of construction of the new Franklin High School with a ground breaking ceremony held earlier this week at the site of the new school.
Beautiful day for the ground breaking ceremony
A warm fall sun shone from beautiful blue skies . . .
as shovels full of dirt were tossed and . . .
the Franklin High Lyricals and Pep Band performed for onlookers.
Video of events
Speeches were made by a number of politicians, the chairs of both the school board and school building committee, and the executive director of the state School Building Authority.
Here is a video of some of the day’s events, including some of the notable comments presented by Tom Mercer, the chair of the Franklin School Building Committee:
Highlights of the new High School
Construction will begin later this month with occupancy of the 306,543 gross square foot facility scheduled for Fall 2014.
With a designated enrollment of 1,650 students, the school will cost approximately $86.7 million. Franklin’s share of the cost is projected to be approximately $47 million with Massachusetts picking up the rest of the tab – quite a bargain for Franklin!
The facility will be home to state-of-the-art instructional labs that will accommodate all the major sciences including chemistry, physics and biology. The deplorable science labs at the current high school presented an especially compelling reason to approve the new school.
Coupled with the labs will be innovative long-term science and research project rooms designed to enhance instruction and encourage collaborative learning.
There will also be a beautiful 800+ seat auditorium, bringing with it significant upgrades to and expansion of practice and storage space for drama, band and choral programs.
The new high school in Franklin, MA was very much needed and will be an educational showpiece for the town for years to come!
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by Warren Reynolds
There are a number of websites maintained by the Town of Franklin, MA to help you learn about about the excellent schools in town. The first site is an excellent, comprehensive site for the Franklin, MA Public Schools: The “go to” site for information on Franklin, MA public schools, this site offers detailed information about [...]
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by Warren Reynolds
Home buyers often want to be able to compare public school systems so they can buy a home in a community whose schools will offer the best education for their children. Compare Reliable School Info But it can be surprisingly difficult to access unbiased, reliable sources of information on public and private schools throughout Massachusetts. There are [...]
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by Warren Reynolds on October 19, 2012
Franklin, MA celebrated the upcoming start of construction of the new Franklin High School with a ground breaking ceremony held earlier this week at the site of the new school. Beautiful day for the ground breaking ceremony A warm fall sun shone from beautiful blue skies . . . as shovels full of dirt were [...]
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by Warren Reynolds on March 27, 2012
Voters in Franklin, MA have overwhelmingly approved construction of the much-needed new Franklin High School. In a town-wide vote held today, residents approved a $47 million debt exclusion to fund the town’s share of the estimated $104.5 million cost of the gorgeous new facility. Ready in 2014 The new school will be ready for occupancy [...]
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by Warren Reynolds on June 16, 2011
The annual fun fair fundraiser for the Helen Keller Elementary School in Franklin, MA was held recently under blue skies. It was a wonderful opportunity to reach out to the Keller community and have some fun. Lots of kids had fun Turnout was strong for the: games . . . bounce houses . . . [...]
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by Warren Reynolds on September 1, 2010
Today was the first day of school for the public school system in Franklin, Massachusetts. The weather was clear and warm, more like the middle of summer instead of September 1. Video of student arrivals for first day of school Below is a short video of how the day started at the Helen Keller Elementary [...]
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by Warren Reynolds on January 11, 2010
Did you know that Franklin, MA used to have a street car line? Or that Main Street in the downtown area was once home to a Stop & Shop grocery store? The above photo shows the old Franklin street car line in action in the early 1900s! Above is the Stop & Shop on Main [...]
by Warren Reynolds on September 1, 2009
Excited children met new teachers and greeted old friends this morning in Franklin as classes resumed at the Franklin, MA public schools. The first day of school in Franklin got off to a great start under sparkling blue skies. No tears were in evidence although this parent felt a bit emotional when it was time [...]
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by Warren Reynolds on March 22, 2009
The Franklin, MA Public Schools offer a wonderful summer program of academics, sports and fun activities for children of all ages. The summer program speaks volumes about the extraordinarily high quality of academics, sports and staff at the Franklin Public School system. Registration is open to Franklin residents and non-residents alike. The summer program starts [...]
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by Warren Reynolds on December 4, 2008
You may be pleased (and a bit surprised) to learn that the high-performing Franklin, MA public school system produces such good results for a very reasonable amount of money spent per pupil. Look at the figures in the chart below: You can see on that chart that, on a per-pupil basis, the Franklin, MA public [...]
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