Mission: Fayetteville High School provides a learning environment with opportunities for all individuals to develop the knowledge, skills, and values needed to realize their potential.
Vision: Fayetteville High School is a diverse, collaborative learning community committed to serving students' needs while empowering all individuals to reach their highest potential.
Core Values: We value others as individuals. We value learning for its own sake. We value personal freedom and the responsibility that attends it. We value the future and our role in shaping it. We value character.

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Fayetteville High School is located at 1001 West Stone Street in Washington County, Arkansas, in the Northwest area of the state.

Fayetteville is located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, 24 miles from the Missouri-Arkansas border and 14 miles from the Arkansas-Oklahoma border.

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History: Early schools in Fayetteville were taught in private residences, churches, and storerooms. Fayetteville High School's first classes where taught in a building completed in 1908. The school had only eleven classrooms, and was located on what is currently School Street. The street was named after the first school in Washington County, which was built on the first F.H.S. grounds in 1833. In latter years crowded conditions resulted in the addition of several more rooms and a gymnasium. For example, school enrollment at the school had reached 668 by 1926, resulting in a six room addition to the school at a cost of $22,000. (Source: The Washington County Retired Teachers Association, School Days, School Days,... The History of Education in Washington, County, 1830-1950, 107,112.)

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The present day Fayetteville High School campus, located on Stone Street, was built after 1950. (Source: The Washington County Retired Teachers Association, School Days, School Days,... The History of Education in Washington, County, 1830-1950, 108.)

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Fayetteville High School is also recognized as being the first school in the state of Arkansas to voluntarily enforce desegregation after the May 17, 1954, Supreme Court ruling on Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, overturned the "separate but equal doctrine" of 1896 and declared separate schools for blacks and whites "inherently unequal". While other schools in the south were using various strategies to avoid compliance with the court's ruling, the admission of black students to the previously all-white Fayetteville High School on September 11, 1954, was making news around the country. (Source: Julianne Lewis Adams and Thomas A. DeBlack, Civil Obedience: An Oral History of School Desegregation in Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1954-1965, (Uof A Press, 1994) 1,3.)

Fast Facts:

In 2006, Fayetteville High School was ranked as one of the top schools in the nation by Newsweek magazine.

Connotations, Fayetteville High School's literary magazine, was awarded a superior ranking by the National Council of Teachers of English Program, which recognizes excellence in student literary magazines.

In 2006, Sports Illustrated ranked FHS as one of the top 20 athletic programs in the country. FHS is a class AAAAAAA school, which is the state's largest classification. 

Fayetteville High School's  band will perform in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The band also performed at Macy's in 1998, at the Hollywood Christmas Parade in 2001, as the Fiesta Bowl in 2004 and at the Tournament of Roses Parade in 2006.

In October 2006, student enrollment was 1,966.