[13][14] It cost £2.4m and tool 18 months, being built by Top Con Limited, to rebuild the site into a college.

The Conservative group on the education committee had frequently referred to low standards and inadequate exam results.

[citation needed] The college site had at one time been occupied by Chelmsford Secondary Modern School before its closure.

[21] Following the FEFC's abolition in 2001, the college was run by the newly formed Yorkshire LSC,[22] which was itself replaced by the YPLA in April 2010.

Both the EFA and SFA were abolished in March 2017 and their responsibilities transferred to the Education and Skills Funding Agency.

Humberside was abolished in 1996,[24] and the college now resides within the region of North East Lincolnshire LEA, but is not part of or controlled by the authority.

The report published by Ofsted following an inspection of the college in 2008 describes school success rate as "consistently at or above the national average at all levels for all ages",[25] and rated the college as Grade 2 (good) in all six criteria (effectiveness of provision, capacity to improve, achievement and standards, quality of provision, leadership and management, and equality of opportunity).

[33] Franklin College also possesses a library and study area that provides a wide selection of fiction and non-fiction books and DVDs.

[34] Construction of a new £1 million extension, consisting of classrooms for IT and health on the college site, began in November 2011.