Extracurricular activities include athletics, marching and concert band, color guard, Future Business Leaders of America, Beta Club, and JROTC.

The school serves[4] portions of the Candler-McAfee (Zone 6) CDP,[2] Belvedere Park,[5] and Panthersville CDPs.

The girls' and boys' teams repeated this feat in the 2011–2012 season as they both won the Class AAA state titles.

He won his 500th career game at the Primetime Shootout in West Virginia on January 21, 2011, against Jamesville-Dewitt High School.

[citation needed] The girls' basketball team won their second Class AAA state championship in 2012.

On May 23, 1970, the Allman Brothers Band performed in the gymnasium of Columbia High School for the Junior-Senior Prom.

[11] On March 12, 1973, Stan Kenton and the Stan Kenton Orchestra gave an afternoon workshop and an evening concert at DeKalb Community College South Campus (now called Georgia State University- Decatur Campus).

On 4 April 1975, 200 members of the Columbia High School Band, Advanced Mixed Chorus, Drill Team, and Majorettes furnished the music for pre-game activities at the Atlanta Braves baseball opening game with the Houston Astros at Fulton Stadium.