Franklin High, 810 Hillsboro Road, Franklin: grades 9-12, 1,729 students (2024-25), state grade A; zoned for Brentwood's Cool Springs corner.
Last checked Oct. 18, 2026. Sources: fhs.wcs.edu, Williamson County Schools, Tennessee Department of Education data files, NCES school directory and the TSSAA.
Franklin High School is a Williamson County Schools (WCS) high school on Hillsboro Road in Franklin, about seven miles southwest of Brentwood. It is on this list because one corner of Brentwood is in its zone: the Cool Springs area near I-65 exit 69, including the Brentwood Pointe and Valle Verde subdivisions. Franklin High opened in 1910 with two teachers and 20 students, according to the school’s history page, and its teams are the Admirals.
Who to call
- Front office: 615-472-4450, 810 Hillsboro Road, Franklin, TN 37064
- School website: fhs.wcs.edu
- Enrolling a new student: the WCS enrollment page. District office: 615-472-4000
- Buses: Williamson County Schools Transportation, 615-472-4950
| Address | 810 Hillsboro Road, Franklin, TN 37064 |
| Phone | 615-472-4450 |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| School day | 7:40 a.m. to 2:47 p.m. |
| District | Williamson County Schools |
| State letter grade, 2024-25 | A |
Principal
Principal Shane Pantall, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
- Federal count: 1,743 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 16 students per teacher.
- State count: 1,729 students in the 2024-25 school year, in the Tennessee Department of Education’s school profile file.
- District projection: WCS projected 1,637 students for the first month of 2026-27 in a building with room for 2,000, and offered 88 open-zoned seats to families from other zones, in its open-zoned schools list for 2026-27 (PDF).
State report card
Tennessee gives every public school an A-F letter grade. The Department of Education says the grades are meant “to provide a snapshot of how each school performed during the previous academic year,” according to its school letter grades page. The grade combines four indicators, each scored from 1 to 5: student achievement, academic growth, growth of the highest-need students and, for high schools only, college and career readiness.
Franklin High earned an A for 2024-25, the latest grades published, with a perfect overall score of 5 in the state’s letter grade file.
| Indicator | Score (1 to 5) |
|---|---|
| Achievement | 5 |
| Growth | 5 |
| Growth of highest-need students | 5 |
| College and career readiness | 5 |
| Overall success rate, all students, 2024-25 tests | 75.1% |
Spring 2026 TCAP tests (share of students who met or exceeded expectations, from the state’s 2026 school assessment file):
| Subject | Met or exceeded | Valid tests |
|---|---|---|
| English I | 70.4% | 372 |
| English II | 89.7% | 399 |
| Algebra I | 59.4% | 283 |
| Geometry | 74.6% | 327 |
| Algebra II | 77.8% | 352 |
| Biology | 74.4% | 387 |
| U.S. history | 82.3% | 215 |
- Graduation rate, class of 2025: 97.4% of a cohort of 460 students, in the state’s graduation rate file.
- ACT, 2024-25: average composite score 26.1; 86.4% of test takers scored 21 or higher, per the state ACT file.
The full report, with chronic absence, subgroup results and more, is on the Tennessee State Report Card; search for Franklin High School by name.
Attendance zone and feeder schools
Check any address with the WCS zoned school finder (abbreviate the street type, leave the ZIP code blank) or on the district’s school zone maps. You must live in Williamson County to attend WCS. Out-of-zone requests open Feb. 4 and close April 15, and out-of-zone students do not get bus service.
In Brentwood, the Franklin High zone is the part of the Walnut Grove Elementary zone that crosses the city line in Cool Springs, according to the WCS zone maps, as drawn in the 2023 board-approved boundaries published in the City of Franklin’s planning GIS, compared with the Census Bureau’s city boundary. Walnut Grove Elementary feeds Grassland Middle, which feeds Franklin High; the Grassland and Hunters Bend elementary zones feed Grassland Middle too. Grassland Elementary has a Brentwood mailing address, but its zone lies outside the city limits. Our Cool Springs neighborhood guide lists the subdivisions zoned this way. Zones follow streets, not city limits, so confirm any address with the zoned school finder.
Calendar and bell times
From the WCS 2026-27 student calendar (PDF):
- Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day, no students
- Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break
- Friday, Dec. 18: half day for students, end of the first semester
- Dec. 21 to Jan. 4: winter break; students return Tuesday, Jan. 5
- Feb. 12-15, 2027: mid-winter break and Presidents Day
- March 15-19, 2027: spring break
WCS middle and high schools start 45 minutes late on set Mondays. The next are Monday, Oct. 19, then Oct. 26, Nov. 2, Nov. 9, Nov. 16, Nov. 30 and Dec. 7.
Bell times for 2026-27, from the district’s start and end times page: classes run 7:40 a.m. to 2:47 p.m., starting at 8:25 a.m. on late-start Mondays, with 11:15 a.m. dismissal on half days.
Sports and activities
Franklin plays football in Class 6A, Region 6 for 2026-27, according to the TSSAA’s current alignments, with Brentwood, Coffee County Central, Independence, Ravenwood, Shelbyville Central and Summit. In basketball it is in Class 4A, District 11, with Brentwood, Centennial, Nolensville and Ravenwood.
The school’s athletics pages list cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, girls soccer and volleyball in the fall; boys and girls basketball, bowling, dance team and wrestling in the winter; and baseball, girls flag football, boys soccer, softball, tennis, track and boys and girls lacrosse in the spring.
Programs
Franklin High is an IB World School. WCS says it became the first school in Tennessee to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in 2000. The diploma covers 11th and 12th grade; ninth and 10th graders can apply for pre-IB status. Both are open to WCS students by application, according to the district’s IB Diploma page, so a Brentwood student zoned for another high school can apply.
More on Brentwood schools
- The school’s website and Williamson County Schools’ list of high schools
- Every public school in Brentwood
- Our Brentwood schools guide for enrollment documents and school board meetings
- Friday night football and the high school scoreboard
Frequently asked questions
Is Franklin High School zoned for any part of Brentwood?
Yes, a small corner in Cool Springs near I-65 exit 69, including Brentwood Pointe and Valle Verde, which is in the Walnut Grove Elementary and Grassland Middle zones.
What is Franklin High School’s state letter grade?
Franklin High earned an A in Tennessee’s 2024-25 school letter grades, with a perfect overall score of 5. Its class of 2025 graduation rate was 97.4%.
Which middle school feeds into Franklin High School?
Grassland Middle, which takes the Grassland, Hunters Bend and Walnut Grove elementary zones, according to the district zone maps.
What time does Franklin High School start?
Williamson County Schools lists Franklin High’s day as 7:40 a.m. to 2:47 p.m., with an 8:25 a.m. start on late-start Mondays.
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