Founded in 1974, the Fine Arts Center is South Carolina’s First Public High School for the visual, creative and performing arts. For almost half a century, the Fine Arts Center has been a premier institution offering pre-professional training by a faculty of teaching artists. Our award-winning arts programs garner local, regional, and national recognition, and our students often excel in competitions such as the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and YoungArts National Arts Competition. Graduating classes average over $10 million dollars in scholarship offers, many of which include admission to the nation’s top arts and academics colleges and universities. Additionally, the Fine Arts Center is an ABC Institute “Model School” and an Art Schools Network “Exemplary School.”