[1] Students from Brick Township had attended Point Pleasant Beach High School for grades 9-12 as part of a sending/receiving relationship, though capacity issues in Point Pleasant Beach meant that Brick would send half of its students to Central Regional High School starting in 1956.

The building, constructed at a cost of $11.4 million, opened in January 1981 for more than 1,000 students in grades 9 to 11.

[14] The Brick Township High School Green Dragons[2] compete in Division A South of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore.

[3][15] The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).

Interscholastic sports programs offered at Brick Township include baseball, basketball, bowling, cheering, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, indoor track, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, table tennis, tennis, track, volleyball and wrestling.

[21][22] In the first game played in the first year of playoffs, the 1974 team finished the season with a 10-0 record after winning the South Jersey Group IV state sectional title with a 21-20 victory against Camden High School in the championship game played indoors in Atlantic City's Conventional Hall.

[23][24] The 1981 team finished the season with an 11-0 record after winning the South Jersey Group IV sectional title with a 17-0 victory against Toms River High School East in front of 4,500 spectators at the championship game at Giants Stadium.

[32] The girls' bowling team has won the Group II state championship ten consecutive years, from 2008 through 2016.

The Winter Guard program has been successful under the direction of Director Jessica VanFossen and Assistant Director Christian Negri, winning the 2018 USBands Scholastic Novice Championship and the 2019 USBands Scholastic Regional A Championship.