This was abandoned in favor of a Track and Field Hall of Fame (which was never built) and a second site was selected on Greenbrier Street near the airport.

The board then decided on a location on a hilltop about five miles from town that was formerly a country club for golfing and had a swimming pool.

[citation needed] Academic Athletic In 2007, Capital High was chosen by Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatricals as one of six pilot schools to perform The Phantom of the Opera.

[citation needed] The Capital High Dance Company, accompanied by the Capital High Jazz Band, was selected to perform at "Arts Alive: The Best of West Virginia," held on April 28, 2008 at the Maier Foundation Performance Hall at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences.

The Capital High V.I.P.s (Voices In Perfection) Show Choir have won numerous grand championships and awards since the school's opening in 1989.

[citation needed] In 2008, the Jazz Band was the accompaniment for the Capital High Dance Company at Arts Alive: The Best of West Virginia.

The Jazz Band is the first instrumental group formed for Capital High in the spring of 1989, before the school opened.

On Wednesday, March 19, 2008, then New York Senator Hillary Clinton selected Capital as her first high school to visit.