Fishers High School


Fishers High School is one of two high schools in Hamilton Southeastern Schools in Fishers, Indiana, United States.

History

The original Fishers High School was located at Lantern Road and 116th Street, where the current Fishers Elementary School stands, but the school was demolished in 1969 after the opening of Hamilton Southeastern High School. In 2003, the current school opened as a freshman campus but, in 2007, the school opened a second wing which allowed for grades 9–12 to occupy the building. A third wing was completed following the end of the 2015 school year as a College and Career Academy.
Due to the Covid-19 contagion, FHS converted to online learning on April 14, 2020 for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. The school district has announced that it will resume on-site classes in the 2020-2021 school year.

Academics

According to the 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best High School Rankings, FHS ranks 11th in Indiana and 805th among all high schools in the United States. Sixty-five percent of FHS students took one or more advanced placement exams, and 45 percent passed such an exam. Sixty-one percent of FHS students achieved math proficiency and seventy-eight percent achieved reading proficiency. In the College Readiness Index Rank, FHS is 1,248th out of 17,792 ranked high schools. For College Curriculum Breadth Index Rank it is ranked 1,236th, and 669th for Math and Reading Proficiency Rank. It's Math and Reading Performance Rank is 2,461. The FHS student-teacher ration is 23-1.
In the 2019-2020 school year, FHS had 10 National Merit Scholarship Finalists.

Athletics

FHS has two competitive show choirs, the mixed-gender "Electrum" and the womens-only "Sound". Electrum won a competition at Center Grove in 2020. The school also hosts its own competition, the Spotlight Spectacular.

Notable alumni