[4] Education standards are very high, with Churchill County's Academic Team being placed 1st in the Nevada Academic League in results published in April 2006,[5] and a teacher at the School, Steve Johnson, being a winner of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the Nation's highest honors for teachers of mathematics and science, in 1999.

[6][7] Churchill County High School has a long history of students serving in the uniform services as well as being accepted into prominent academic institutions.

In November 2006 closed circuit television was installed, the first school in the state to have such a comprehensive system, and has proven effective in enhancing discipline.

[10] This was needed since according to a regional survey, almost 7% of Churchill County students have used methamphetamine, and anecdotal data points to a number closer to 15%.

[11] On January 22, 2020, a male student brought a pneumatic pellet gun into his classroom.