[5] The school's mascot is the Blue Devil, from the nickname for the popular WWI French Les Chasseurs Alpins Army Division.

[8] Davis High School is a Division I member of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section's Delta League.

In the 2007–2008 school year, Laurynne Chetelat, a Davis High senior on the girls' team, won the Division I race at the State Meet.

[15] Continuing the winning tradition established in the middle of the decade, both the boys' and girls' cross country teams won Sac-Joaquin Section Championships in 2008, led by the strong performances of standouts Matt Petersen and Christine Bowlus.

[17] In 2013, Fiona O'Keeffe, a sophomore on the Davis High girls' team, won the Division I State Meet race.

[25][26] In July 2012, SOLARGUARD solar panels were installed over the main student parking lot at Davis Senior High School.

[28] On April 14, 2013, Daniel William Marsh, a student at DHS, fatally stabbed East Davis residents Oliver Northrup and Claudia Maupin in their home.

He stated that he had wandered the streets with a knife until he found an open window, which happened to be Northrup's and Maupin's.