A number of extended subjects were offered, which were primarily intended for students (both male and female) who had previously attended other folk high schools.

The school attracted highly qualified teachers such as the physicist and inventor Poul la Cour, whose windturbine experiment had been groundbreaking at the time.

In the mid 1880s, the principal at the time, Schrøder, encouraged Søren Larsen Meldgaard to establish Askov Sløjdlærerskole, next to the folk high school.

In 1972, a group of teachers, including Ebbe Kløvedal Reich, left the school because they were displeased with its principals and advocated for modernized teaching.

The school has also functioned as a physical space for community meetings and has been a gathering place for a number of important initiatives of both political and cultural significance.