Benjamin Franklin High School, New Orleans' most outstanding public charter school, has been preparing students for success through academic achievement since it was founded in 1957. We are consistently ranked as a "top public high school in the nation" by "U.S. News & World Report" and have been named a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence five times. We produce multiple Presidential and National Merit Scholars each year, with 99.9% of students attending four-year colleges, and we serve students from every ZIP code in the city. It's a point of pride for us that we don't have an admissions lottery or cap on our enrollment; any student in Orleans Parish who meets our academic standards is invited to enroll. Our faculty includes two Louisiana Teachers of the Year, as well as a Milken Educator Award winner (known as the "Oscars of Teaching") and a 2025 "National Geographic" Grosvenor Teacher Fellow.