It is a Title I school[4] serving the Cottonwood, Camp Verde, Beaver Creek, and Sedona areas.

[5] There were once three separate high schools in the Verde Valley of Arizona — Jerome, Clarkdale and Cottonwood.

[8] When Sedona-Oak Creek USD opened in 1991, it took territory from the Mingus high school district.

The school requires people who would otherwise be upperclassmen to wear the ID colors of underclassmen if they lack sufficient credits.

The Phoenix New Times printed an article discussing a parent's concerns that this could indirectly lead to shaming of some students; the family contacted the ACLU to get a remedy.