Frankford High School

Frankford High School

Infobox school | name = Frankford High School
name2=Frankford High School
motto=Home of Champions
free_label1=Slogan
Colors
Mascot
free_text1=Champion Pride
Gold, Navy Blue, Crimson
Frontier Pioneer
established=1910
type=Public High School
address=Oxford and Wakeling St.,
location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19124
faculty=90 est.
enrollment=1,800 (2005 est.)
information=+1 215-537-2519
principal=Richard Mantell
free_label2=Assistant Principals
free_text2=Wanda Scruggs
Phyllis Green
Jeannie Hendricks
website=http://frankfordhs.phila.k12.pa.us/admin.html

Frankford High School is a public high school in the School District of Philadelphia. It is located at Oxford Avenue and Wakeling Street in the Frankford section of Northeast Philadelphia.

Frankford was founded in 1910 as an annex to Central High School. For the school's colors, blue was added to the red and gold of Central. Frankford's slogan is "Home of Champions," a nod to its longstanding tradition of fielding strong sports teams. The school's athletic teams are nicknamed the Pioneers.

School uniform

Frankford students are required to wear school uniforms [http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/offices/osm/uniforms/#f] . Uniforms consist of blue collared shirts and khaki bottoms.

Other Facts

Frankford High School is the only high school in the United States with its own full pipe organ; Frankford has one of three pipe organs in the city.

Frankford is one of the few schools in the country to have three colors instead of two.

The frankford Pioneers wrestling team has the longest streak of public league championship, winning the championship from 1997-2007.

The pioneers football team has 27 city titles more than any other philadelphia school.

Frankford's soccer team won an astonishing ten straight Public League Championships (1987-1996), four of which by shutout. (source: http://www.tedsilary.com/SOCCERPLfinalsscore.htm)

Notable Alumni

*Joe Bonsall, singer The Oak Ridge Boys
*Jahri Evans, New Orleans Saints offensive tackle
*Bobby Higginson, former Detroit Tigers outfielder
*Mike Jarmoluk, former Philadelphia Eagles defensive end
*Ralph Lewis, Seattle SuperSonics assistant coach
*Blair Thomas, former Penn State and NFL running back
*Stevie Richards, professional wrestler
*Jonathan Maberry, author and educator
*Tom Mills, Alumni President
* Vince DeMentri, News Anchor

ee also

*Northeast Philadelphia

External links

* [http://frankfordhs.phila.k12.pa.us/ Frankford High School]
* [http://www.FrankfordAlumni.com/ Frankford Alumni site]


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