In 1993 campus was opened to ninth and tenth graders, and the first graduating class of Foothills High walked in late spring 1996.

[5] The Catalina Foothills Marching Band consists of around 240 students annually and has an international reputation.

[11] In both 2006 and 2019, the Falcon band represented Arizona at the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

[12] Soon after performing on live television in 2006, the Chinese-American Cultural Bridge Center, on behalf of the Olympic International Festival Committee,[13] invited the band to perform in a youth festival in China a month before the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing during the summer of 2008.

In 2014 ten Falcons won Best One Act Play in the state, traveling to the International Thespian Festival in June 2015.