Before a high school opened in Edina, students looking to extend their education past eighth grade had to find their way down to the old Central High School at 4th Avenue and South 11th Street in Minneapolis.

[7] By the 1940s some Edina students in grades 10 through 12 attended private high schools.

During the mid-1940s, support for an Edina-Morningside junior and senior high school was increasing.

A $1.25 million school bond issue was passed in 1946 by the residents of Edina and ground was broken in October 1947.

In November 2003, city of Edina residents passed an $85.8 million bond referendum[8] to renovate all school facilities in the district, with the high school undergoing major renovations.

Edina High School completed its $60 million renovations in September 2017.

In 2019, the record was broken for most state championships won in a school year as Edina claimed 8 titles.

The boys' hockey team has won a state-record fourteen [14] championships (including three titles by Edina East), eight under Willard Ikola alone.

Edina held the record for most consecutive state championships in girls tennis with fifteen from 1978 to 1992.

[15] In 2012, Edina broke their own record by winning nineteen straight state championships from 1997 to 2015.