[2] Students receive a minimum of two hours of arts study each day.

The school is open for auditions to students from the Milwaukee metropolitan area.

In 2005, the MHSA Artvarks, their ComedySportz Improvisational High School League Team took home the State Championship.

West Division High School opened in 1895 in what was known as the "Plankinton library block" on Grand Avenue downtown, but a building was built to house the new school in 1896 between 22nd and 23rd Streets on what was then called Prairie Street.

[3] In 1958, the current structure was built, facing the original facility across what was by then called Highland Boulevard.