Marion-Franklin High School

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Marion-Franklin High School


Motto	Pride Inside
Established	1953
Type	Public School
Principal	Mr. Brian Terrell
Students	1090 (estimated)
Location	Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Campus	City
Colors	Red and White
Mascot	Red Devil
Website	http://www.columbus.k12.oh.us/marionfranklin

Marion-Franklin High School is a 4 year high school (grades 9-12) located on the south side of Columbus, Ohio at 1265 Koebel Road. Marion-Franklin is one of 17 different traditional high schools in the Columbus Public Schools district.

The school colors are Red and White and the mascot is the Red Devil. Nicknames for Marion-Franklin include both "the MF" or simply, "Marion".

1 History
2 Administration
3 Sports
- 3.1 Sport Teams
4 External links

[edit] History

The doors of Marion-Franklin opened in September of 1953. At that time the school was a six year high school and served the area of Marion Township. In 1957, Columbus Public Schools (CPS) decided to widen their district and acquired Marion-Franklin in the process. The school was then re-opened as a four year high school and has remained this way since.

[edit] Administration

There are 4 principals at Marion-Franklin High School - a Head Principal, an Assistant Principal (in charge of Junior and Senior classes), an administrator in charge of sophomores and a head of the freshman academy.

[edit] Sports

As in most high schools, sports are very important to the Marion-Franklin community. The Marion-Franklin Football Team reached state playoffs in both 2004 and 2005. The football team won the title of City South Championship in 2005, and the wrestling team, which has had over sixteen city championships through out the years took second place at the City Meet in 2006. The Basketball team also placed second in the City Basketball Championship this past Winter. In soccer, the Red Devils had their best year known in 2005, with 2 wins. They had only 45 goals scored on them, which was the lowest in 6 years since 2001. They also had some of the top scorers such as John Hansel with 7, Robert Weilbacher with 11 and Grennell finishing with 1. Red Devil soccer gets better every year.