[2] It was featured in the Jonathan Kozol book Savage Inequalities.

[4] In addition to East St. Louis, the district (this is the sole comprehensive high school of the district) also includes portions of Canteen, Centreville, and Stites Townships in northwestern St. Clair County.

The district also includes all of Washington Park, much of Alorton and Centreville, and portions of Belleville, Caseyville, Fairmont City, Fairview Heights, and Madison.

The Flyers beat Prairie Ridge in 2022 for the Class 6A football title.

Two years of Flyers football during that period were the subject of a book, The Right Kind of Heroes.