Due to a fast-growing local population, Shreveport's only high schools for black students prior to Green Oaks, the Linear Junior-Senior High School and Booker T. Washington High School, had become overcrowded by 1967.

The teaching program was moved to the Caddo Career & Technology Center in the late 2000s.

The Performing Arts magnet program was eliminated under the 2009 Caddo Plan, which called for Green Oaks to be reconstituted as a junior/senior high school with a school-wide emphasis on performing arts.

The current Linear campus is occupied by Northside Elementary School.

Green Oaks High athletics competes in the LHSAA.