A College Bound Program
We believe that every student should graduate from high school ready for college. Our high program exceeds North Carolina’s high school graduation requirements. Students select from Honors, AP, or standard level courses. FSI also partners with North Carolina School of Science and Math, offering students the opportunity to complete rigorous STEM courses while they are enrolled at FSI. We offer a wide range of elective courses, including theatre, visual arts, and choral and instrumental music. Students can participate in programs like Model UN, Science Olympiad, and math competitions, or experience outdoor education courses like Adventure Education.
AP and Dual Credit Courses
FSI offers both AP courses and dual enrollment through the College & Career Promise Program (CCP) at AB Tech.
Students can earn college credit by successfully completing AP courses. FSI currently offers 10 AP courses and is continuing to expand our offerings, providing students the option to demonstrate readiness for the rigor of college.
Students can also earn college credit through the AB Tech Career and College Promise program. Beginning in their junior year, eligible students may enroll in AB Tech courses, in lieu of elective courses offered at FSI. Courses are tuition-free. You can learn more about this program here: https://www.abtech.edu/ccp
Students in the 11th and 12th grades are eligible to participate in the dual-enrollment program if their current GPA is an unweighted 2.8 or higher. Additional information about the CCP program can be found here. About 30% of our students earn college credits through this program.
Foreign Languages
As a college-bound program, FSI encourages students to meet the minimum admission requirements for NC public universities, successfully completing at least 2 years of a language. FSI offers French I-IV and Spanish I-V on campus. Students can earn high school credit for Spanish I and French I in 8th grade. Spanish and French can be taken at the Honors level year 3 and up. The emphasis of Spanish classes here at FSI is on interpersonal communication with the functional goal of being able to speak in context conversationally.
Service
Students engage as active citizens, contributing to their local and global communities through meaningful community service. Students must complete 50 hours of community service prior to graduation; students who provide 100 or more hours of service are recognized at graduation with the school’s Service Endorsement.
Senior Passages
In their final year, students embark on personal “learning expeditions.” They complete 24 hours at a work or internship experience. During this experience students focus on developing durable skills.
Students spend time reflecting through journal entries about how durable skills were used during their experience and how they will use durable skills in other aspects of their life. As a final step, students create a presentation to showcase what they’ve learned and to share why they are ready to graduate and proceed on their chosen pathway. Students present to a panel including administrators, teachers, community members, and other students.
AP Senior Capstone Diploma
AP Capstone is not a course, it’s a two-year program based on two AP courses—AP Seminar and AP Research. Other AP courses teach you in depth about a specific subject, like biology or U.S. history. AP Seminar and AP Research are different, they focus on helping you develop academic skills you can use in any discipline. These skills include:
- Critical thinking: View issues from multiple perspectives and create arguments based on evidence.
- Collaboration: Work alone, in a group, and with expert advisers to communicate your ideas.
- Conducting research: Explore various research methods and complete research projects on topics of your own choosing.
- Public speaking: Present and defend your work as a group and individually.
AP Seminar, AP Research, and the completion of four other AP courses AP exam or portfolio score earning a score of 3 or higher for all six AP courses.
