On February 14, 2018, a mass shooting at the campus perpetrated by a 19-year-old former student of the school armed with a semi-automatic AR-15 style rifle left 17 dead and 17 more wounded in less than six minutes.

[27][28] The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Athletics Department operates programs in football, volleyball, lacrosse, softball, tennis, track, water polo, bowling, basketball, cheerleading, soccer, wrestling, swimming, cross country, and golf.

[29] The cheerleading squad at the school received international attention in 2012 when its coach[30] was fired in response to complaints from parents.

Parents complained about being charged thousands of dollars for their children to participate in the program, and alleged that the coach mishandled the team's finances and encouraged bullying.

[34] Several students in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Drama Club wrote "Shine", a song memorializing the victims of the school shooting in 2018 and others who have experienced gun violence.

It has also been performed by other musical groups, such as the Badiene Magaziner Vocal Studio at the March for Our Lives rally in New York City on the same day.

The Eagle Eye was the student-run news publication of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The Stoneman Douglas Color Guard program is directed by Dean Broadbent, who previously won WGI World Championships with Flanagan High School in 2008 and 2012.