IUHS also offers student services, such as career counselling and "life experience credits" for non-academic achievement.

[4] During 1925, Indiana University High School began offering distance education courses by paper-mail, to high school students throughout the United States.

During 1999, Indiana University formally decided to establish a distance education high school, which provided the traditional paper-mail method and modernized online distance education.

Indiana University High School maintains networking capability through the IU Communications Building, located at Kirkwood Avenue.

The 40 credit minimum does not apply to a college prep diploma, or academic honors diploma; it represents the minimum number of credits which students need to graduate.