Early students arrived to school via horse and buggy or the now defunct Kahului Railroad.

The campus boasts the sculptures A Path Through the Trees by Satoru Abe, Growing by Toshiko Takaezu, and Carolina by Thomas Woodruff.

Maui High School has a variety of athletic opportunities for its students, including basketball, cheerleading, judo, paddling, track and field, swimming and diving, tennis, golf, cross country, wrestling, riflery, football, baseball, soccer, women's water polo, and softball.

In order to participate in athletic opportunities, a student must maintain a grade-point average of 2.5 throughout a sport's season.

The Sabers remain one of only two public high schools in Hawaii to win the regional competition of the National Science Bowl (a total of four[8] times) and one of only two public schools in Hawaii to win the regional National Ocean Sciences Bowl competitions (a total of four times).

In recent years, 3rd- and 4th-place awards have been given to Maui High finalists in the physics category, in addition to one student receiving an all-expense-paid trip to the European Organization for Nuclear Research.