However, a range of additional subjects are offered for interested students including Principles of Accounting and Visual Arts in SPM.

In the non-academic field, the school declared its niche areas in hockey, golf, traditional Malay musical orchestra.

[8] It officially opened in 1973 with six classes and eleven teachers, but the students had to reside in the nearby Sekolah Menengah Ismail Petra (SMIP) until the present campus was ready at the start of 1974.

The awards are as follows: The former students' association (also known as FARIS PETRA) showed their appreciation to the school by contributing a fund to build a mosque in 2004.

[citation needed].Earlier, alumni association acronyms were SEMESTA later changed to FARISAINS in 2009 to better reflect the school's name.