First Presbyterian Day School is a private college-preparatory Christian school in Macon, Georgia

Macon, Georgia

Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...

, United States

United States

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. It was founded in 1970 as a project of First Presbyterian Church, also in Macon.

Commonly known as "FPD", it offers curriculum from K-4 through the 12th grade to approximately 1000 students. New fine arts and athletics facilities were completed in 2000 and a new high school building in 2006. School colors are red and black and the school mascot is the Viking

Viking

The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...

. All students must pay tuition. PK- $3,760; K- $5,070; Grades 1-5- $10,850; Grades 6-8- $11,210; Grades 9-12- $11,675.

FPD is a member of the Georgia High School Association

Georgia High School Association

The Georgia High School Association governs athletic and club events for member high schools in Georgia, USA. The GHSA is a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations. The association comprises 437 public and private high schools...

, the College Board

College Board

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, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation...

. FPD is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

a school

Mission

At First Presbyterian Day School, our goal is to provide a strong college-preparatory education that reflects a Christian world-and-life view in the Reformed tradition. Reformed Christian Education has a rich tradition that is founded in the ideals of the Reformation and has impacted even the early American public schools. College-preparatory education has changed rapidly over the past 100 years as the challenges facing society, business, and industry have grown (especially in respect to mathematics, science, and technology) and the nature of post-secondary education has changed. We work hard to see that our program reflects these time-honored ideals and changing societal needs in a seamless and coherent way in order to fulfill our purpose to educate and equip students to change the world for God’s glory.

Athletics

As of the fall of 2010 FPD competes in the Georgia High School Association. In the Georgia Independent School Association, the FPD athletic program has won 28 State Championships and 127 Region Championships since it was founded in 1970. The girl's basketball team and wrestling team won their respective 2009 state championships. In 2010 Coach Jimmy Turner helped to lead the vikings to its second baseball State Championship in school history, they last won in 1992 under Turner. 2010 was their last year in the GISA. In the spring of 2011, the Lady Vikings soccer team, under the direction of head coach Josh Trieste, won the GHSA Class A State Championship in their first year of competition in the GHSA.

FPD's Athletic Program won the 2009 All Sports Award recognizing them as having the most successful athletic program in the GISA. This is the third consecutive year that they have won this award.

Academics

FPD also has a well rounded Blue Ribbon Academic program to go along with its Athletic Program. FPD provides twelve A.P. courses, which are US History, US Government and Politics, Spanish Language, English Literature, English Language, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Biology, Latin-Virgil, and European History. FPD was awarded for achieving academic success when it won the Blue Ribbon School of Excellence as it was the best academic school in Georgia for that year.

Notable alumni

• Robert McDuffie
  Robert McDuffie
  Robert McDuffie is an internationally renowned violinist. He has played as a soloist with many of the major orchestras around the world including those of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Minnesota, Houston, St...
  
  , violinist
• John Rocker
  John Rocker
  John Loy Rocker is a retired American Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians, the Texas Rangers, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as well as the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball...
  
  , former major league baseball relief pitcher.
• Steve Penley, artist

External links

• First Presbyterian Day School