[2] In May 1962, alumnus Erle Johnston gave the commencement speech titled "The Practical Way to Maintain a Separate School System in Mississippi" in which he criticized the "extremism" of the NAACP and Citizens Councils.

[3] After strong resistance, vicious attacks, and intimidation,[4] the school was integrated in 1966.

[5][6] In 2021 the school had a roughly equal number of African American and white students.

100 percent of the school's students were categorized as economically disadvantaged.

[8] The Grenada marching band program won 39 championships in the last decades of the 1900s; it also made appearances in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1995 and 2001 and the Tournament of Roses Parade in 1998.