The school's attendance boundary includes sections of Humboldt County, Nevada.

Additionally, it is where McDermitt School District 51 of Malheur County, Oregon sends all of its students.

[4] The Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe Reservation is in the school's service area.

[5] In 1955 the U.S. Office of Education announced it would spend $185,000 to fund the construction of a new McDermitt School, with four elementary and two secondary classrooms in a one-story building made of concrete.

[8] In 1978 the school was asking for extra space to operate programs from; at the time its population was not growing.