[3] The school is a member of VHSL and competes with the Group A Dogwood District.

Prior to then, the children of Altavista were schooled in a shantyhouse, with Ms. Pearl Yeaman as principal.

[5] The first recorded use of orange and black to symbolize the school was in The Nuntius 1925, where the football team was called "The Orange and Black".

[6] In The Nuntius 1929, the school song cheers on "The Orange and the Black".

[7] In 1979, a separate high school section was built containing an auditorium, a "media center", and high school classrooms.