The merger that created Boyden–Hull Community School District was approved in a December 1958 vote of the Sioux County board of education.

[24] In 2018, Boyden–Hull began a joint vocational education program with the Sioux Center Community School District and NWICC.

[32][33] A vote to acquire land from the city of Hull and Herman Oldenkamp for Boyden–Hull's team sports took place in August 1964.

[40] The student organization is mainly active around Red Ribbon Week and also volunteers at the local chapter of the Ronald McDonald House.

[50][51] The men's basketball team has appeared in the Class A Iowa High School Athletic Association tournament eighteen times since 1971,[52][53] with titles in 2003,[54][55] 2012,[56][57] and 2013.

[58][59] Former coach Paul Walton compiled a 350–130 record over 26 years[60] and was inducted into the Iowa High School Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001.

[61] The Comet basketball team made its first appearance in the 2A state tournament in 2019, losing the championship game to North Linn High School.

[64][65] The Comet boys' basketball team faced Western Christian for the first time since 2005 in the 2021 championship game,[66] losing to the Wolfpack.

[67] The 2021 2A championship game was also the first time in Iowa High School Athletic Association basketball history that two teams from the same city met in the final.

[71] The BHRV collective began by sharing baseball and football, and expanded to softball in 1993, followed by the subsequent merger of the track and field and cross country teams in 1997.

[71][73] The Boyden–Hull/Rock Valley football team made it to the championship game for the first time in 2009, falling to Solon High School.

[77] In 2018, the Nighthawks returned to the 2A football championship game, losing to Prairie City-Monroe High School.