[2] A 500-seat performing arts center, including restrooms, a new lobby, and two additional classrooms, opened in February 2017.

The Fairview High School theater department offers four levels of dramatics classes as well as two annual stage plays, and a Thespian Society organizes other performance events.

[13] Fairview High School offers an array of visual arts courses, the subjects of which include drawing, painting, photography, sculpting, printmaking, ceramics, and digital works.

Fairview offers TSSAA-sanctioned baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling programs.

[14] Fairview High school wrestling team runner up 2020 and state champions in 2021 Clubs at the school include organizations for the academic decathlon cheerleading, chess, dance, Future Farmers of America, HOSA, Model UN, National Beta Club, science bowl, National Technical Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, student government, a student newspaper, the Technology Student Association, and Youth in Government, among others.