[1] China Spring High School won the UIL State Football Championship in 1978 as a 1A high school led by Coach Jim Ed Bird beating Lexington 42-3.
The next year, the football team played Hull-Daisetta in the state championship game, losing 28-18.
[2] The football team went to the state championship game again in 2007 as a 3A high school, but lost 14-21 to the Celina Bobcats.
On December 17, 2021, the China Spring Cougar football team won their 2nd state title in program history.
The band has a 27-year streak of getting sweepstakes at UIL marching, concert, and sightreading.