Farmington Public Schools promotes critical-thinking skills that will cultivate great thinkers and innovators of tomorrow and promote better-educated graduates. By allowing students a chance to explore and engage in hands-on science, they will be prepared to be informed citizens and ready for college and careers.

Farmington Public Schools science teachers follow the Arkansas K-12 Science Standards. These standards were adopted in 2015-2016, and align with the research based Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). They were developed in such a way to promote analysis and interpretation of data, critical thinking, problem solving, and connections across science disciplines. By engaging in science and engineering practices and applying crosscutting concepts, students deepen their understanding of the core ideas in science.