[2] By the 2010s, there was an alternative school, Second Chance HS, for at-risk students that provided a small, more customized learning environment.

[3] Kernel athletic teams compete in the Eastern South Dakota Conference.

[6] In February 2017, MHS opened the largest high school auditorium in the state of South Dakota.

[11] FDC won a national-level competition in 2000 and won the state competition sanctioned by the South Dakota High School Activities Association all three years the contest was held (2016–18).

[14] The school student newspaper, The Kernel, was cut due to budgetary pressures in 2017, but remained in publication as a club activity in association with the local regular newspaper The Daily Republic.