The new high school, which opened in the fall of 1979, is located on Highway 69 on the west side of Lumberton.

Located in the front of the school is a tree planted in memoriam of five students who died in a car crash in May 1998.

[2] In 2013, there was widespread controversy over a geography lesson that utilized Burqas and other clothing worn in muslim countries.

[5] In 2018, the school made accommodations for some teachers to be armed with guns.

While the majority of organizations use red as the official color, in recent years, as in past, a trend has begun to revert to the original school color, Columbia blue.