The original Broadway School was a small, one-room building that opened in the mid-1870s and was taught by C. E. Barglebaugh, just eighteen years old.

A brick building with a library, office, auditorium, and six rooms replaced it.

A new facility built west of the town in the 1950s was used as a high school until completion of the current building at its current location in January 1998, upon which time it became J. Frank Hillyard Middle School, named for its former principal.

Marching band begins in late summer and generally ends with a Christmas parade.

For those who aren't in the cast or crew of the spring musical, there is pit orchestra.

The Fighting Gobbler Regiment is a proud blue ribbon school, winning local and state competitions yearly.

Directed by Amy Tewalt, Jaimie McGovern, and Anna Goodwyn (2024–Present).

The Broadway Academic team of '06-'07 had twenty-six members: one freshman, six sophomores, one junior, and eighteen seniors.