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The Benjamin Franklin Academics Plus School is an historic elementary school which is located in the Crescentville neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]
Benjamin West PRA (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was a British-American artist who painted famous historical scenes such as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris, and Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky.
Conditions at Franklin worsened when the School District of Philadelphia cut the school's funding due to many economic problems in the area. Dropouts and transfers were common. There were 164 freshmen enrolled in 1986, and another 71 entered the following fall, but only 181 graduated in 1990, a loss of 22 percent.
Benjamin Franklin School may refer to: in the United States (by state then city) Benjamin Franklin Public School Number 36, Indianapolis, Indiana, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Center Township, Marion County; Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Benjamin Franklin High School, also referred to as Franklin High School, Livonia Franklin and FHS, is a public high school located in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb west of Detroit. Franklin High School is named after Benjamin Franklin .
The precursor of MCSM in the same building, Benjamin Franklin High School opened in 1934 and was sited at 200 Pleasant Avenue, between 114th Street and 116th Street. [2] A long-time principal there was pioneering educational theorist Leonard Covello, the city's first Italian-American principal.
There are many places and institutions named for Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.These include counties, municipalities (that is, towns and cities), geologic features, colleges and universities, high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, businesses, transportation ways, and a proposed U.S. state.
The school was named for Pennsylvania founder William Penn. In 1970, the School District of Philadelphia made plans to renew this school and nearby Benjamin Franklin High School at Broad and Green Streets, which at the time was an all-boys school. The plans were to make William Penn and Benjamin Franklin co-ed.