Frankfort High School (West Virginia)

The latest state championship came in 2021 where the boys cross-country team finished second (while the girls' team finished fifth,) nearly bringing home the state title. This follows their victory at the state championship in 2020. [8] Also, the baseball team won the state championship in 1988[9] and the girls' track team were state champs in 2013.[10]

The following sports are offered at Frankfort:

• Fall: soccer, football, golf, cross-country, volleyball, band, cheerleading
• Winter: basketball, wrestling, bowling, band, cheerleading
• Spring: baseball, softball, tennis, track, band

The high school hosts three separate instrumental ensembles, including marching band, concert band, and a jazz ensemble.

The Frankfort High School Falcon Band is headed by Roger Walker, who was inducted into the West Virginia Marching Band Directors Hall of Fame in 2019. [11] Under Walker's direction, the concert band has consistently received Superior ratings at the regional Concert Adjudication Festival. The award-winning marching band was selected to represent West Virginia in the second Inaugural Parade of President Barack Obama on January 21, 2013.[12] In 2017, the band was also selected to represent West Virginia in the Inaugural Parade of President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017.[13]

The high school also hosts a flourishing drama program, headed by Jessica Hughes, that frequently puts on performances for the public, including annual Christmas performances, talent shows, and crowd-interactive murder mystery dinners.

The school found itself in controversy following the rise of a conspiracy revolving around famed disability rights activist Helen Keller and her existence. Two students from the school claim that Helen Keller was not, in fact, a real person. She was actually two people, Helen and Keller, who were blind and deaf respectively. They claim that Helen and Keller colluded together to assassinate President John F. Kennedy while disguising themselves as a deaf and blind woman named Helen Keller to avoid any suspicion or charges. Even though the government later found out, they chose to keep the information classified as to not frame themselves as critics of Helen Keller.[14]

The students also propose that Helen and Keller have gone through cycles of reincarnation to become the students currently proposing the theory. Keller, who died in 1968, was reincarnated into famous Turkish-American actress Derya Arbaş, who was born that year. Arbaş, who then died in 2003, was reincarnated into first student, who was born the same year. However, Helen's link to the two current students has not yet been found, according to the HKHS, which is the students' official association for researching the conspiracy theory.[15]