Hunter High's mascot is the Wolverine and the school's colors are navy, silver, and white.

Hunter high offers a broad range of scholastic disciplines ranging from core classes (English, Math, the Sciences, Foreign Languages) to art and trade classes (Auto Mechanics, Electronics, Photography, Video Productions, Drama).

Students have the option of studying Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, and American Sign Language.

Hunter has offered the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program since 2005, but due to lack of funding and student interest, is shutting it down after the class of 2010 graduates.

[3] Hunter also offers a wide array of off-campus programs ranging from Travel and Tourism to Aviation to Home Building.

In their first year of competition, Hunter's football team was winless but turned their fortunes around the next year and made it to the "turf" (a reference to the playing surface that was installed at the University of Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium which hosts the state high school playoffs).

The boys' and girls' tennis teams won numerous region titles throughout the 1990s and dominated play out west.

In the first season of competition, one of the only sports to perform well was the boys' soccer team, which made it to the state playoff game, unfortunately resulting in a loss.

Students in Wind Ensemble practice their various pieces throughout the year, performing in a large concert around the Winter holidays, and then competing in a region competition near the end of school in the spring.

In 2006, they started accompanying student soloists in Concerto Night, a concert of held near the end of the school year.

They prepare and present many things, such as the school musical, and many smaller, student produced works.

The school musical is a high point not only for the drama department, but for all of the performing arts at Hunter.

More recent productions include The King and I (2004), Beauty and the Beast (2005), Camelot (2006), The Wizard of Oz (1987 stage play) (2007),Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2008 and 2014), White Christmas (2009), Bye Bye Birdie (2010), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011), Sound of Music (2012), and West Side Story (2013).

The company performs styles including modern, jazz, tap, Fosse, Broadway, ballet, contemporary, and lyrical.