Located on the campus of the University of New Orleans, on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain, the Benjamin Franklin High School (BFHS) has three notable distinctions: It’s the highest-achieving public high school in all of Louisiana. It’s a strong contender for, and likely winner of, the title of “most integrated public high school in New Orleans.” (There’s really only one rival.) And it’s one of the country’s very few academically selectivecharterschools. But it wasn’t always a charter. Before Hurricane Katrina hit the Crescent City in 2005, Ben Franklin was a selective academic magnet within the Orleans Parish school