The team has also reached the bracket championship on KCOS' televised tournament [1].

The Franklin High School Band includes: All of Franklin's ensembles consistently receive 1st Division ratings at EPISD, UIL Area Contests, and other festivals locally, statewide and nationwide.

[citation needed] The "Star of the West" band hosts the district's Solo and Ensemble each year.

[7] On March 20, 2009, The Chronicle was presented with a Silver Crown award at Columbia University in New York.

In 2011, Pride, for the first time, earned a CSPA Gold Crown award and received it again in 2013.

Pride 2014, themed RADICAL, earned a CSPA Silver Crown and a NSPA Pacemaker nomination.

Pride 2015, themed HUMAN, was one of 13 high schools nationally to be awarded a Columbia Scholastic Press Associations's Gold Crown.