The Dyer Central building was demolished in 1993–94 as part of renovations made to Kahler Middle school.

Between 1967 and 1983, a television station, WCAE (channel 50), operated from the Lake Central High School campus.

Some Lake Central students and faculty were the subject of an October 20, 2012, Wall Street Journal front-page article on their collective work to track down and document Indiana's battle casualties.

[4] A similar story appeared during the CBS Evening News in 2013 showing teacher and students working on their Hero Project.

[5] Lake Central made the news again in 2017 when teacher Samantha Cox was videotaped using cocaine in her classroom by a student.