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Franklin High School is home to over 1,300 “Quakers” who have the opportunity to learn with and from one another. As freshmen, each ninth grade student is randomly assigned to a team of teachers when entering Franklin High School. That team is composed of a Language Arts teacher, a World History teacher and a Physical Science teacher. Those three teachers share the same group of students and those students travel together as a class between those three classes. This structure makes a student’s entry into Franklin more personal by giving students a common group of peers and a common group of teachers.
From the 10th grade on, Franklin has continued to develop small learning communities in which they have 4 academies—CREATE Academy, John Stanford Public Service Academy (PSA), Academy of Finance (AOF), and Humanities. Each academy specializes in a particular study with their own mission statement and required classes.
The John Stanford Public Service and Political Science Academy (JSPSA), founded in 2000, is a college preparatory small learning community (SLC) that offers students a rigorous 3 year academic program that meets and exceeds state standards for Language Arts and Social Studies. State standards in LA and Social Studies are overlaid with an emphasis on the role of the public sector in societies, past and present. PSA students are challenged to develop their critical thinking skills and to develop their own vision of the role that they and their government should take in confronting the opportunities and problems of their local, national, and international communities. The PSA combines Public Service and Political Science (the study of law, government and NGOs, history, political systems, etc.) in a way that empowers our students to make meaningful change in their communities.