In 1872, it was replaced by a four-story building that hosted kindergarten through twelfth grades, designed by Gurdon P. Randall[4][5] in the Second Empire style.

The boys' and girls' basketball games and volleyball matches are played at the Central High gymnasium.

The baseball and softball teams compete at Boyd Stadium, a renovated park three miles northeast of the campus.

In 2007, the Eagles became the only high school in Nebraska to have won championships in three main sports in the same calendar year.

As a result, Central was ranked by Sports Illustrated as one of the top 10 high-school athletic programs in the country.

In 1986 Quill and Scroll officially declared The Register the oldest continuously published newspaper west of the Mississippi.

[14] After the administration again threatened the paper with closure, the students won reprieve through the support of professional journalists across the country.

[16] Central also had, starting in 1969, a student-run radio station, KIOS-FM (91.5 MHz), which operated during the 1969–1973 school years.