[1] The Parkersburg district maintained the joint high school.

[8] The athletic extracurricular activities at Aplington–Parkersburg High School are football, volleyball, cross country, basketball, wrestling, tennis, soccer, golf, track and field, softball and baseball.

The Falcons are classified as a 2A school and compete in North Iowa Cedar League Conference.

Prior to the 1992 merger, the separate high schools in Aplington and Parkersburg were members of the Big Marsh Conference until the 1976–77 school year, when both schools left to join the Mid Iowa Conference, then the Big Iowa Conference.

[10][11] On June 24, 2009, Ed Thomas, the football coach, track coach, and athletic director, was shot and killed in the weight room.