Finally, the towns of Buckeye, Palo Verde, Arlington, and Liberty came together with the goal of forming an accredited high school.

The original name for the school's teams was the Wildcats at the creation of interscholastic sports in 1925, followed by the Buckeyes in the late 1920s, then the Hawks in 1929 (beating out Farmers in a schoolwide vote).

The WPA helped the school in the 1930s to build a shop and garage, dressing rooms for the auditorium, tennis courts, and a lit football field with bleachers.

A new football field came with the B building; a new gymnasium highlighted the middle of the decade; the front of the shop was partly rebuilt in 1959.

At the same time, in the wake of the passage of Title IX, girls' athletics expanded from just tennis to a fully featured program.

The growth finally stabilized out at about 800 students in the 1980s and early 1990s, but bonds passed in 1980 and 1990 enabled the district to invest in updated facilities and a computer-networked campus.

On Tuesday, August 22, 2016, a 10th grade student, Ms Mariah Havard, was asked to remove her "Black Lives Matter" T-shirt for her school picture.

[3] The school's A-wing, now owned by the town of Buckeye, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places at the end of 2009.

The agreement is expected to result in $100,000 of annual savings for the school district, and offset 2,296,422 lbs of CO2 per year.