A two-room school opened in 1871 with an enrollment of 50 students as Franklin's first public school. The building was expanded in 1914 to accommodate a vocational school in the central portion of the building, a left wing was added in 1922 and a right wing was constructed in 1926 at a cost of $150,000 (equivalent to $ million in ), opening in September 1927. Franklin Industrial School had its first graduating class in 1924 with nine students, which rose to 14 in 1928 when the first full class graduated. School history records that
Babe Ruth, a frequent visitor to the Franklin area, and a group of local engineers oversaw the design of a baseball field whose dimensions matched those of the original
Yankee Stadium. A 1960 construction project that added an auditorium and gymnasium to the school necessitated moving the field's original grandstand, considered at the time to be one of the best in the country. In 2024, the Franklin district joined in a process considering a regionalization of
Wallkill Valley Regional High School with its constituent municipalities to form a common K–12 district. ==Schools==