MHS offers Advanced Placement classes, which six percent of the student body participates in.

[5] Enrollment at Marinette High School, 2000–2019On November 29, 2010, sophomore Sam Hengel held a teacher and 24 students captive for five hours at gunpoint before shooting himself.

[6] He carried two pistols and a knife into school and made students hand over their cell phones.

[7] Reports indicated that Hengel never pointed the gun at students, and that he never had any specific plan on what to do.

[8] Marinette High School shares a historic football rivalry with Menominee High School in neighboring Menominee, Michigan, for over a century, dating back to 1894.