What are FCDS’s goals? Is it an exemplary educational facility or just a fun place to go to school?
Forsyth Country Day School strives to be the top school in North Carolina and to be among the top 20 schools in the nation. To achieve these goals, we could be nothing less than an exemplary educational facility. Academic excellence is an extremely high priority, but this excellence may be defined in many different ways. At Forsyth Country Day School, we have decided to be an educational leader and to define excellence for ourselves rather than buy into a narrow, pre-existing definition. We accept only those students who can handle our curriculum. That does not mean, however, that we will accept only students who score in the top stanines on a standardized test. We are far more interested in how far we can bring our students than merely in how gifted they are naturally. By taking this broader view of excellence and in developing programs and facilities like the Johnson Academic Center and the Multi-sensory Academy of Practitioners (MAP) program, we are not only recognizing the educatio
