It was housed, for many years, in a three-story brick building at the current site of Seminary Square Park, and was considered Bloomington's central high school by 1864.

Inadequate emergency water systems in the area, however, left them unable to save the building, and it collapsed several hours later.

The zonal boundary that determines which Bloomington high school a student will attend forms a jagged line that intersects the city.

This geographic divide was contentious given that the MCCSC school board decided to send the most prominent socioeconomic neighborhood (Hyde Park) to North to reduce in economic/academic inequity.

[5][6] The Panthers compete in the Conference Indiana, with their main rival being the cross-town Bloomington High School North Cougars.

The choir performs nationally, notably in Orlando, FL; New York City, NY; Chicago, IL; and Nashville, TN.