1977 Vocational programs were offered to CSHS students as the Anderson County Center of Occupational Development was opened.

1989 With the new addition of a library, science labs, a cafeteria, and several new classrooms, the 9th grade was moved to CSHS which again became Clinton High School.

In January 1956, federal judge Robert L. Taylor ordered Clinton High School to desegregate with "all deliberate speed" in accordance with the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

[5] They were encouraged by New Jersey white supremacist John Kasper and Asa Carter both of whom spoke publicly in Clinton on September 1, 1956[6] against integration.

[5] After violence was narrowly averted on the lawn of the Anderson County Courthouse on September 1, National Guard troops were called into the city for two months to keep order.

On the morning of each school day, they walked together down Broad Street from Foley Hill to Clinton High.

Paul Turner, the white minister of the First Baptist Church, was severely beaten after escorting the twelve students to school.

Early in the morning of October 5, 1958, the Clinton High School building was severely damaged by a series of dynamite explosions.

[citation needed] On February 10, 2006, Williams, Cain, from Foley Hill to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1956 integration.

They compete in Class TSSAA AAA in the following sports: The school is also home to a prototype solar-powered classroom called the "Net-Zero Building".