[9] The original school building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

[11] Fulfilling an objective of the Prince George's County Capital Improvement Program[12] since 1989, construction on a new 800-seat auditorium for the school was expected to begin in February 2009.

[13] Laurel High's student newspaper, "The Shield", established in the 1995–1996 school year, has won awards from the American Scholastic Press Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

[citation needed] Laurel High School currently enrolls roughly 2,000 students in grades 9 through 12.

In 2009, Sheryll Cashin said in The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream that Laurel High was one of several mostly black, mostly middle class Prince George's County public high schools that were "decidedly underachieving: fewer than half of the seniors at these schools went on to attend four-year colleges in recent years.