Fred T Foard High

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Welcome to Fred T. Foard High School!

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We are making education better for students in grades 9 through 12.

We are located on a beautiful campus in northwest Catawba County. Foard tradition runs deep, developed from State Championships in multiple sports and FFA, superior ratings season after season, marching band and chorus programs, and continued academic success.

Our school focuses on high expectations for academic, personal, social, and emotional growth, ensuring that students graduate college- and career-ready. Whether students are at a desk, in a lab, or on a stage, we prepare them not only with the knowledge to face the next step in life but the confidence to pursue dreams.

We provide a wide range of academic offerings, including access to AP courses that challenge and engage young scholars to reach their greatest academic potential. Our team of talented and caring teachers, staff, and administration work together to personalize each individual's learning. We want to ensure that students receive a well-articulated and challenging curriculum, achieving their potential not only intellectually, but also artistically, athletically, and socially.

We provide a student-centered approach to instruction and use real-time academic data to drive instruction and improve student achievement. We also offer a wide variety of electives such as a nationally ranked JROTC and outstanding Career and Technical Education (CTE) classes that allow our students to gain experience and knowledge in a variety of career fields.

We are Happily Making Education Better by

Ensuring a safe and healthy environment for students and staff
Helping our students graduate career- and college-ready
Teaching soft skills like character education, teamwork, and collaboration that make our students attractive in the workforce
Providing workforce development courses like engineering, health care, coding, drone technology, welding, auto mechanics, and more
Giving our students the flexibility of taking a variety of courses online through Online Catawba Virtual Academy
Personalizing our students’ education by getting to know each student’s unique academic, social, and emotional needs
Providing students with technology as a tool for personalized learning including Chromebooks for each student, robotics programs, and more.
Offering a well-rounded curriculum that includes foreign language offerings, robotics, visual and performing arts like drama, concert and marching band, chorus, handbells, and more

Accountability is Important

We strive for academic excellence, which is why we take the grade we receive on our NC School Report Card (an annual statewide measure of school performance) seriously. In addition, we submit our School Improvement Plan for review and approval as required by state regulations, and our team revises that plan’s goals and strategies regularly. Feel free to explore the links below.

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction provides its own "report card" about public schools in North Carolina. Report cards are released annually with a snapshot of each school - including student performance, class size, attendance, school safety, instructional resources, and teacher quality in our schools. Additionally, each school in the state receives a letter grade of A, B, C, D or F.

To assign an overall school performance grade, which is comprised of 80% proficiency and 20% growth, the state uses end-of-grade testing in elementary and middle schools and end-of-course exams plus other indices such as ACT scores, graduation rates, a measure of math rigor, WorkKeys scores, and EL progress. While proficiency demonstrates a student’s performance level in a subject area, growth measures the amount of academic progress a student makes over the course of a year or class.

Personalized learning is essential to each student, ensuring that every student experiences growth regardless of where they are on their educational journey.

We invite you to view our report card using the button below.

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We believe that the key to making education better at our school is to consistently analyze what we're doing well and and to look for ways we can improve. Like all schools in our district, we have a team of people who meet regularly to discuss ideas for improving our school and teaching methods. Our team also meets to discuss concerns and issues pertaining to our students, teachers, and staff.

All North Carolina Schools are required to submit a School Improvement Plan (SIP) to the local board of education for review and approval is required by state regulations. Yearly, the team revises our School Improvement Plan which outlines goals and strategies.

We utilize a web-based school improvement planning tool called NCStar. NCStar contains over 100 research-based effective practices (indicators) that we personalize to meet our school's and district's needs.

We invite you to view our SIP on NCStar. It is view-only, but allows "real-time" transparency of our school improvement plan process to everyone - all staff, district personnel, school board members, parents, and community members.

View our School Improvement Plan

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