Currently inter-district enrollment is permitted only for children of employees of the City, faculty/staff of the School District, and a small number of grandchildren of Beverly Hills residents.

[16] By 2017, the high school total population had dropped to 1,482, and the demographics of enrolled students were: 73% Caucasian, 13% Asian, 8% Hispanic, and 3% African-American.

[18] Due to the large number of students of Iranian origin, the school has historically scheduled a staff development day on or around Nowruz.

[22] For many years Beverly has selected high-achieving students from twelve LAUSD middle schools on diversity permits in an attempt to increase the number of minorities enrolled.

In April 2007, due to pressure from parents and activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who criticized the school for not recruiting more African-American and Latino students, Superintendent Kari McVeigh agreed to extend the application deadline until April 27, as reported in the Los Angeles Times and The Beverly Hills Courier, hoping that more students from these minority groups would seek to enroll.

According to the Beverly Hills Courier (May 25, 2007), "civil rights leaders hailed the final student selections" as "an honest effort to obtain ethnic diversity.

"[23][24] The school board voted 3–2 in the spring of 2008 to offer the children of alumni, who live outside the district's boundaries, preference in enrollment.

The intended purpose is to influence these alumni to support the school district regarding bond measure or tax issues and fund-raising.

[27] Ultimately, the new extension – called the “Subway to the Sea” – would connect downtown’s Union Station to the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica.

[28] The next year, Beverly Hills voters elected Lisa Korbatov to the school board, where she served as president.

[26] For nine years, until she left office in 2018, Korbatov led the school board and Beverly Hills city officials to oppose the expansion of the subway tunnel beneath BHHS, citing worries about explosions, carcinogens from seeping fumes, and even a possible terrorist attack.

[26] In October 2018, BHHS students protested against the plans to build the Metro D Line extension beneath the high school.

[29] The city of Beverly Hills also sued the subway project in court in an effort to prevent it from building a tunnel underneath BHHS.

[30] Despite over $15 million expended on the litigation, much of it funded from school improvement bonds, the use of which was questioned by a citizens' oversight committee,[31][32] the District was ultimately unsuccessful and on May 18, 2020, Judge George H. Wu ruled in favor of the Metro that it had satisfied the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act in documenting its choice of route.

[33] A cluster of nineteen oil wells in a single "drilling island" on Beverly's campus can easily be seen by drivers heading west on Olympic Boulevard toward Century City.

[35] In the late-1990s an art studio run by two Beverly High graduates volunteered to cover the well enclosure, which at that time was solid gray in color, with individual tiles that had been painted by kids with cancer.

In April 2003, the Texas-based lawfirm of Baron & Budd partnered with the law office of Masry & Vititoe to lend its expertise in lawsuits related to health risks of volatile chemicals.

[41] After receiving complaints about Beverly's oil installation, the region's air-quality agency investigated Venoco and in 2003 issued three Notices of Violation regarding the operation of the drilling island.

[42][43] On December 12, 2006, the first 12 plaintiffs (of over 1000 total) were dismissed on summary judgment because there was no indication that the contaminant (benzene) caused the diseases involved and the concentrations were hundreds to thousands of times lower than levels associated with any risk.

In June 2004 Beverly Hills Courier Editor Norma Zager was named "Journalist of the Year" in the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards competition for her coverage of the Erin Brockovich-Ed Masry lawsuit.

[47][48] The 1988 non-fiction book Hard Lessons by Michael Leahy documents the life of six Beverly seniors for a full school year.

However, after speaking to Beverly students he concluded that sex and drug abuse were neither higher nor lower than at other local high schools.

[citation needed] The Beverly Hills High School "Swim Gym" was designed by Stiles O. Clements and built in 1939 as a New Deal project.

Beverly offers the following sports: BHHS's stadium is a multipurpose facility that is used for football, soccer, baseball, lacrosse, and track and field.

After his retirement from teaching high school, Ingle had a prolific career as a soap opera and commercial actor, most notably as scheming patriarch Edward Quartermaine.

They have traveled across the United States to well-known locales such as San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, Orlando, Washington, D.C., and even internationally to Mexico, France, and, in 1993, New Zealand.

Some examples of these guest choreographers in recent years have been Sam Allen, Victoria George (dance teacher at Beverly Vista Middle School), Neaz Kohani and Janet Roston.

In a 2010 episode of the reality competition cooking show Hell's Kitchen, the titular restaurant hosts Beverly's prom.