Campus and Facilities
Since August 2011 the school has been located in a renovated department store. The design of this temporary facility was awarded the Council of Educational Facilities Planners International's 2012 James D. MacConnell Award for excellence in school design.
Franklin Tech has been relocated to temporary facilities in multiple locations in Joplin.
On May 22, 2012, the groundbreaking ceremony was held marking the start of construction of the new permanent replacement school. Construction costs for the new 400,000-square-foot high facility, which includes a 70,000-square-foot vocational technical center, are expected to be $92.2 million. The school is planned to open in 2014.
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“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)