It housed around 450 students a year until closing in the late fifties after the construction of a new high school.

The building is three stories and is noted for having a ground-level entrance on each floor.

After closing as a high school, the building began to serve as offices for Cochise County, such as the district library, the health department for a time, and for elections, and adult probation services.

Today, the building is vacant and waiting to be renovated into an apartment complex.

[3][4] During some recent construction, the job supervisor was shot and killed by a disgruntled former employee outside the Old Bisbee High School.