Franklin High School is a public high school located in Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. In the 2025-26 school year the school has an enrollment of 1,379 students. Its campus is located at 218 Oak Street. The current school building opened in 2014.
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Athletics
Mascot: Panthers
League: Hockomock
Accomplishments
Girls' soccer - MIAA Division 1 South Sectional Champions - 2010, MIAA Division 1 State Champions - 2012
Boys' Ice Hockey won State championships in 1983 and 2016
Boys' Baseball won State championships in 1986 and 2018
Boys' Basketball won a State championship in 2025
Volleyball won a State championship in 2025
Sports by season:
Music and performing arts
The FHS Music Department is a part of the Massachusetts Music Educator's Association Central District (CD-MMEA) and sends several students to join the senior festival every year. It is also a part of the Massachusetts Instrumental & Choral Conductors Association (MICCA), where all ensembles participate in their respective annual festivals. The Jazz Band participates in their own separate festival (MAJE). The drama club, FHSTC, performs three plays or musicals per year, and participates in the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild (METG) High School Drama Festival each year, for which it has been a finalist twice.
Previous school plays and musicals:
*canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Specialized programs
Franklin Arts Academy (FAA): An alternate course pathway, the FAA enables students that are accepted into the program to take courses only available to FAA students, requiring an art component as part of the application. The courses include FAA versions of regular English, history, and some science classes, as well FAA art courses. The FAA also holds fundraisers to go on one field trip a year to a performance and/or museum. Students can join beginning in their sophomore year, applying as a freshman. All fine arts students, including both the performing and visual arts, are able to join.
Senior Project: As a participant in Senior Project, students will increase their awareness of the necessary steps for achieving a set career, service, or artistic path by participating in a full-time externship during the final quarter of their senior year. Students will complete various project objectives including: 70 hours of professional externship experience, written reflection papers, a cumulative portfolio, and a final presentation to a panel. Students must submit a proposal for Senior Project by the end of their junior year. The proposal is reviewed by a panel who will determine if the Project had the potential to be completed successfully. Upon acceptance into the Senior Project, students will enroll in a preparatory course during the 3rd term of their senior year and then commence their externship during the final quarter of their senior year. Senior Project provides students with the opportunity to apply their academic, social, and civic skills developed throughout the course of their experiences at FHS and realize connections between their high school education and future careers.
Notable alumni
Peter Laviolette, Class of 1982, former NHL player and NHL head coach
Pat Mason, Class of 1993, former head baseball coach at Virginia Tech
Jen O'Malley Dillon, Class of 1994, White House deputy chief of staff and campaign manager
Kristi Kirshe, Class of 2013, Olympian on US Women's Rugby team at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and Olympic Bronze medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Rogan O'Handley - Class of 2003, Right-Wing social media influencer known as DC Draino.
Paula Lodi
Maria Barrett