The Baptist Association tried to rent the old Brothersville Academy and a boarding house, but their efforts were futile.

W. L. Kilpatrick in his work, The Hephzibah Baptist Centennial (1794–1894)and in A Lost Arcadia, by Walter A. Clark, published in 1909.

[2] It was caused by two boys smoking near a gas leak, and it resulted in five injuries and the death of six-year-old Gilda Joyce Martin.

[4][5] Freshman Academy was shuttered after the construction of Cross Creek High School was completed in 1999 and made operating a second location for Hephzibah unnecessary.

[5][6] A new wing was added to the main facility that same year to finish the push to ease overcrowding at the school.

In 2008, Hephzibah unveiled its new football stadium whose construction caused a major redesign of its athletic facilities.

Many believe that the Augusta Chronicle's formula disadvantages schools like Hephzibah, given the large number of military children enrolled in classes.

With a student enrollment of 1,245, Hephzibah High is in the state's highest classification for varsity sports.

[15] In the championship game, they defeated Kendrick High School to finish the season with a record of 33–0.

Coach Wendell Lofton has led the team to more than 500 wins and has produced multiple NCAA Division I players.

[17][18] Le'coe Willingham, also a member of the Lady Rebels basketball team, won the 1998 AAAA state track and field high jump title.

[19] Two Hephzibah graduates, Itoro Umoh-Coleman and Joanne Aluka, played together on the Nigeria women's national basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

The team was coached by a graduate of the class of 1952, Al Turner, who became the first inductee into the Hephzibah High School Hall of Fame.

By the late 1990s, members of the Hephzibah community had become less comfortable with the increasing influence of hip hop and R&B on the band's style.

This became evident with a media focus on the dancing corps of the band, known as the Rebelettes, who were deemed too "jiggy" to be appropriate.