The Morton High School marching band has become very well known regionally in recent years.

[4][5] The high school also hosts a band invitational that ran for the thirteenth year in September, 2018.

In 2012, the band received the honor of being class 2A champions in the St. Louis Super Regional.

[6] The band has been the recipient of many honors and awards, including:[7] The Morton High School Math Team won the 2012 State Math Championship at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign over the incumbent University of Chicago Lab School.

The building housing Morton High School was built in three stages between 1954 and 1976.