In August 1907, the Alabama Legislature passed an act mandating the establishment public high schools for the education of white students in each county under Governor B.

The elementary building was destroyed by fire in 1959 and was replaced by a modern structure.

Completed in 2001, the prominent Office/Library Complex contains the school's main office, a library media center for Grades 7-12 and two English classrooms.

Records for the University of North Alabama indicate that the school then known as Florence Normal College once played Lauderdale County High School in the early part of the century, and LCHS won over the college team.

In the 1940s during World War II, many young men were fighting, so the school played six-man football.