Burbank High began an extensive facility update in 2003, and its first phase of reconstruction was a building housing new classrooms for the entire school.

By 2005, the campus also had a new gym, pool, visual and performing arts center, parking structure[clarification needed], athletic field, and tennis courts.

Burbank High is known for its nationally ranked advanced mixed show choir[citation needed] called In Sync, directed by Brett Carroll.

In 2010, Burbank High's 2009 yearbook reached the finalist round in the National Pacemaker Award for the first time.

[citation needed] Burbank High School's most successful academic extracurricular program is its Speech and Debate team.

Burbank High School ("The Bulldogs") fields a full range of high school interscholastic athletic teams including both men's and women's basketball teams, tennis, American football, cross country, baseball, softball, golf, track and field, swimming, water-polo, volleyball, soccer, and wrestling.

In 1979 the Montreal Expos baseball team along with other MLB stars played basketball for charity in the BHS gym.