CKHS was for the first time ranked in the top 2% of the nation academically in 1984[4] and has continued to be through the 2015–2016 school year.

[5] CKHS has also garnered two Washington Achievement Awards for closing the Achievement Gap, and has also appeared regularly in the U.S. News & World Report as a nationally ranked school (Data complications with the move to adding ninth graders in 2014–2015 have led to an erroneous omission for the 2016 list).

CKHS is a four-year high school, serving grades 9-12 on and off since 1924, as district reconfigurations occur periodically.

In the fall of 2017, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new CKHS and Central Kitsap Middle School building was held.

[8] In 2012, Central Kitsap High School was named in the top 9% of high schools in America by US News, academically, in math and reading.