In 2001, the 7th and 8th grade students, along with the 6th grade students from Brownsville Road Optional Elementary School, formed the new Craigmont Middle School at the opposite end of the same block.

This was done both to help overcrowding and to reduce the extreme age and maturity gaps present in a single building.

Before the physical split between junior and senior high schools, junior high students (those in grades 7, 8, & 9) remain relegated to the north end of the building for classes while those senior high students (grades 10, 11, & 12) attended the majority of their classes in the south end of the school building.

Beginning with the 1991-1992 school year, students from grade 9 would become a part of the senior high section of the building.

Former principal, Dr. Ada Jane Walters, would go on to become the Tennessee State Commissioner of Education.