[4] In 1909 Ballard High School was given its name, and then moved to its present location during Christmas vacation 1915.

[4] That structure was demolished in the summer of 1997 due to asbestos contamination, and was replaced with the current facility.

The students who attended Ballard at Lincoln High had no bells to mark classes, limited classrooms, and cubically separated classrooms in the library and gymnasium facilities for the 1997–98 school year.

Finally in September 1999, Ballard High School returned to 1418 NW 65th Street to occupy a new building with the ability to accommodate evolving technology and more than 1,500 students.

[5] Then 16-year-old Brian Ronquillo, a student at Shorewood High School, fired a gun eight times into a group of students as a car he was in drove past Ballard High School.

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