The majority of academic classes are now taught in a separate, two-story building with full walls between each classroom.

U.S. News & World Report states that Freedom has a student body that is 47.5% minority and 48% economically disadvantaged.

Sports offered at Freedom include: football, soccer, cross country, basketball, swimming, wrestling, lacrosse, baseball, tennis, track and field, volleyball and softball.

Freedom has won five state championships in girls basketball (1989, 1994, 1995, 2002 and 2016) the first four of which were as a 4A school, while the last was 3A, with the Lady Patriots also going undefeated for the 2015–16 season.

In 2014, Freedom High was named an NCHSAA "Exemplary School" for its athletics and extracurricular activities.