New Student Registration

In order to register your student for Franklin High School, in Franklin, Massachusetts, you must be a Franklin resident.

Franklin does not currently offer School Choice. This decision is made yearly by the Franklin School Committee

Who needs to register their student?

1. Families of those students that have just moved to Franklin

2. Families of those students who are transferring to FHS from private high schools, online schools, religious high schools, home schooling, Tri-County, or other high schools.

3. Families of students who are RE-ENROLLING at FHS, or any students who did not attend Franklin Public Schools this past year.

  • Students entering 9th grade who attended and completed their 8th grade year at Horace Mann, Annie Sullivan, or Remington Middle Schools do not need to complete this process. 

The registration Process for FHS:

STEP 1 :  Please do whatever your student's prior school requires to withdraw them formally from that school. This will help us to obtain their records and speed up the registration process on our end

STEP 2 : The first part of our registration process is an online "Aspen" registration. Aspen is our Student Information System. Click the blue link to view Aspen Registration Instructions and to access the Aspen New Student Registration portal >> FPS Aspen New Student Registration portal and instructions.  Please note, until this step is complete your student will not be in our electronic system and we cannot go any further.  You will be required to upload your student's birth certificate, medical records including last physical and immunization record, your proof of residency in Franklin (<<click link and scroll down to COLUMN A for clarification of proof of residency documents), your photo ID, and a selfie photo (of you), and any custody documents, if applicable, to the Aspen Registration portal.  If you previously used an Aspen parent portal and need a password reset, click here.

STEP 3:  Once you have completed the Aspen Online Registration and clicked SUBMIT, the Superintendent's office will review your responses and uploaded documents. If they have all they need, they will create (or re-enable) your student's Aspen account. If they need something else from you, they will email you.

The following additional steps need to be taken to complete your student's registration at Franklin High School once the online Aspen piece is completed:

Step 4:  Scan or take a photo of the following documents (or have prior school email them) and email them to the FHS REGISTRAR at:  patteni@franklinps.net

  • Release of Information Form<<please click on this link, print form, complete it, sign the bottom, and email the completed form back to the FHS Registrar at patteni@franklinps.net ; this will be used to request student academic records from prior school.

  • Transcript from previous school- Upperclassmen will need an official transcript from last high school. Incoming 9th graders can provide a final 8th grade report card in lieu of a transcript. You can ask previous school email this document to the FHS Registrar directly at: patteni@franklinps.net

  • Attendance and Discipline Records from previous school-student cannot start school at FHS unless we have these documents in hand. You can ask previous school email the attendance and discipline information directly to the FHS registrar at patteni@franklinps.net

  • IEP including most recent evaluation reports, or 504 plan, if applicable

  • MCAS Scores if student attended school in Massachusetts before registering at FHS

  • ELL Records/ACCESS testing, if applicable, for students whose native language is not English

Complete all of the following (3) additional required online forms by clicking on the name of each of them:

These additional forms are for your convenience, but not required:

  • Free and Reduced Price Lunch Application  (online application) Although (1) standard breakfast and lunch is currently free for everyone, this application can be filled out at anytime to see if you qualify for additional discounts (i.e. free or reduced cost school bus transportation) This application usually opens in mid to late August for the upcoming school year.

  • School Bus Information -If you would like to register and pay for your student's bus transportation go to THIS PAGE, or for more information, contact Ms. Denise Johnson in the Transportation Office 

  • Athletes: If your student was an athlete at their prior high school, and would like to participate in athletics at FHS, please read pages 45-49 of the MIAA Handbook, and then print out and complete these (2) forms and return the completed forms to the FHS Registrar.

STEP 5:  Once you have completed the online registration form, have received a confirmation from the superintendent that your documents were complete and approved, and you have emailed all of the additional required documents (from step #4 of this page), and completed the (3) online forms (from step#4 of this page), the FHS Registrar will email or call you to make an appointment with a Guidance Counselor to create a class schedule and have a building tour. New student appointments occur all summer. Please do not wait until the week before school starts to register your student. That is an extremely busy time and you may not get a Guidance appointment until after school has already started.

The Franklin High School Student Registrar is Mrs. Ivy Patten

Phone: (508)-613-1424 ♦  FAX (508)-613-1510 

patteni@franklinps.net

Registrar's hours year round: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM.