This breaks the general policy of BCoPS of not naming schools with the first names of people rather opting towards the previous example of using only last names such as in the example of Franklin High School (the County and BCoPS oldest public high school and a descendent of the historic old private Franklin Academy) in the Reisterstown area in the northwest Baltimore County or the current Carver Center.
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Academy Awards | Benjamin Franklin | United States Military Academy | Russian Academy of Sciences | Aretha Franklin | National Academy of Sciences | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | United States Naval Academy | United States Air Force Academy | Royal Academy of Music | Franklin | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Franklin Institute | Brooklyn Academy of Music | Phillips Academy | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Phillips Exeter Academy | Chinese Academy of Sciences | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | National Academy of Engineering | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | John Franklin | Academy of Fine Arts | Franklin Pierce | British Academy | Academy Award for Best Picture | Kirk Franklin |
In 1831, he was elected principal of the Franklin Academy, located in Reisterstown, Maryland.
On removing in 1868 to Franklin, New Hampshire, he entered the Franklin Academy, and after six months there, went to the New London Academy, subsequently Colby–Sawyer College.