![Whitney Houston with her elementary school principal and students in 1990](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/5bc7eb1a2a034f359ad99734583ec240/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/170308_academy.jpg)
Growing up, Whitney attended Franklin Elementary School in East Orange, New Jersey starting when she was 6 years old. In 1997, the school honored her by re-naming it The Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts. Here pictured is Whitney in 1990 at the school with Principal Henry Hamilton.