Prior to 2014, the school was housed in a building designed by noted architect Don Buel Schuyler, who was a protege of Frank Lloyd Wright.

During the fall of 2022, TCSS broke ground on a new football stadium that was funded through an $18.2 million grant from the Alabama Board of Education.

This new state-of-the-art building was constructed to accommodate the large influx of new residents that continue to move into the area due to an explosion in the auto manufacturing industry (Mercedes-Benz US International in nearby Vance, AL), and related companies.

Walter Energy (now Warrior Met Coal, Inc.) donated 93 acres directly adjoining the rear of the old school building and property upon which the 6A, 168,000 sq.

Swinford noted that she had received "various email and text messages containing a link to a photo album" containing explicit photographs documenting the relationship between Joseph Bradley "Brad" Petrey, a social studies teacher and assistant football coach, and an unnamed student (subsequently identified in a lawsuit as Abigail Weissenbach) and that the matter had been referred to the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office.

[16][17] Petrey was arrested on August 4, 2015, and booked in the Tuscaloosa County Jail on one charge of "school employee engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under the age of 19 years."

Kenny Shipman said that the investigation "centered on compromising photographs that were leaked anonymously over the internet portraying the two in a sexual relationship while she was still a student and he a teacher.

"[18] In fact, the photographs, including several of a humorous nature, have spawned at least one notable internet meme and were mainstays of the 4chan culture for some time.

[19] Charges against Petrey were dropped on February 6, 2017, after prosecutors stated that Weissenbach had left Alabama and refused to cooperate as a witness.

[20] Later that year, Weissenbach filed a Title IX lawsuit against the TCSS in federal court, alleging that school officials were aware of Petrey's actions and did nothing to protect her from him.

In an interview related to the case, Weissenbach claimed that the relationship with Petrey began during her junior year, when she "was going through a hard time and it was really nice to feel like I had someone who was in my corner that really, really cared.” She said that he was a friend and mentor, at first.

“He kind of coached me in Christianity and talked to me a lot about that and would ask me to sit behind his desk and it really just grew from there really quickly and it turned into something before I really knew it was going down that path,” she said.