It is located next to the local Golden Eagle Park, south of the Ashbrook Wash. Fountain Hills High School has many extracurricular programs, including a first-place band and many champion-winning athletic teams.

There is a wide variety of AP & honors classes, an AVID program,[clarification needed] an elaborate[according to whom?]

art department and much more.Fountain Hills is seeing a gradual increase in students from Scottsdale due to the small and inclusive appeal Fountain Hills High School offers compared to surrounding schools.

[citation needed] The Fountain Hills High School marching band won 1st place at the ABODA (Arizona Band and Orchestra Directors Association) Super State Finals competition at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.

[citation needed] The Fountain Hills High School symphonic band performs locally at the Fountain Hills Community Center semiannually at the end of the second and fourth academic quarters.