[4] From 1852 through 1885, the school was known as the Auburn (Masonic) Female College, offering secondary and, prior to 1870, collegiate degrees.

[5] From 1892 through 1908, the school was named the Auburn Female Institute, providing collegiate programs equivalent to an associates degree.

[11] Auburn High School has been competing in Science Olympiad since 2000, and has represented the state of Alabama at the national level every year since 2014.

Some of these seniors would attend U-Penn, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Chicago, Vanderbilt, Emory, North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Cooper Union, McGill, and Berklee College of Music.

The Auburn High School curriculum includes traditional high school academic subjects, advanced academic classes, music and art, and programs in business and marketing, agriscience, industrial systems technology, and engineering.

[23] There is an option for 11th and 12th grade students, who have completed all of their high school requirements, to jointly enroll at Auburn University or Southern Union State Community College.

[33] The school attracted hundreds of boarding students to Auburn in the 1840s and 1850s, offering a complete secondary education to women—including ancient and modern languages, literature, mathematics, and musical arts—at the same academic level of that given to men.

[37] A significant part of the curriculum included foreign languages; courses in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, German, and Italian were offered in 1861.

[40] When the American Civil War began in 1861, virtually the entire male junior and senior classes of the school, as well as much of the faculty, joined Confederate States of America military units, particularly the 37th Alabama Regiment.

The regiment was captured at Corinth, Mississippi, and exiled to the Johnson's Island prisoner of war camp on Lake Erie.

[43] Around 1870, the school reopened in the building formerly occupied by the male academy, on the site of the current Auburn City Hall.

[45] Through the 1870s the town's economic condition was poor, and the school, still run by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, closed at least once more before reopening permanently in 1877.

[55] Over the next two decades, Auburn High developed its modern extracurricular face, forming band, choir, drama, and other programs, as well as diversifying occupational classes.

[59] Six major additions were made to the 405 S Dean Rd campus since the original construction in 1966, and it is currently the site of Auburn Junior High School.

Auburn High has twice been ranked first in the state (October 1967 and October–November 2009), and proceeded deepest into the playoffs in 2001 and 2009, when the team reached the semifinal round.

[110] The most notable player produced by the Auburn High School baseball program is pitcher Joe Beckwith, who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1979–1983, 1986) and Kansas City Royals (1984–1985).

[111] Baseball games are broadcast on WAUD AM 1230 and sportscallauburn.com Auburn High's men's soccer program, coached by Bo Morrissey, has reached the 6A state playoffs each year of the program's existence, including final four appearances in 2005, 2010, and 2012, winning the 6A state championship in 2012.

The women's soccer program, coached by Mac Matthews, has reached the final four of the state playoffs six of the last seven years (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009).

[118] Auburn High School has three competitive show choirs, the mixed-gender "Varsity Singers" and the all-female "Èlan" and the all-male "Men at Work".

[120] The Auburn High School Science Olympiad team has placed either first or second in the state, and thus has represented Alabama at the national competition, 10 out the past 12 years.

The school was designed in a modernist style on an open campus-style setting, with three detached buildings separated by outdoor walkways and courtyards spread out over 70% of the campus area.

The Auburn Fieldhouse, a competition gymnasium, was built in 2005, a new academic building containing science classrooms was constructed in 2008, and the Julie and Hal Moore Center for Excellence, a performing arts facility, was completed in 2010.

Off-campus athletic facilities include 8,310-seat Duck Samford Stadium, the Auburn Softball Complex, and the James E. Martin Aquatic Center.

[126] The school maintains a 1.16:1 student–to–computer ratio, with all classrooms having wired (100 Mbit/s) Internet connections and LCD projectors, while the campus as a whole is covered by a wireless network.

Loveliest village of the plain", while a later line describes Auburn as, "where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey."

A common epithet for the school used by students and alumni, "dear old Auburn High", is taken from the last line of the song.

In 1961, Auburn High School band director Tommy Goff wrote music to fit those lyrics to create the current fight song.

[131] For the 1955 football season, Auburn High used the Alabama Polytechnic Institute fight song "War Eagle".

[134] The journalism classes at Auburn High print a monthly newspaper, the AHS Free Press.

[135] Starting in 2007, Auburn High students run a campus television station, known as Tiger TV.