In autumn 2003, the school completed a multimillion-dollar multi-phased renovation, that now provides the faculty and student body population with a state of the art cafeteria, library, and completely renovated classrooms to include an acoustically integrated choral and music instrument practice rooms along with other improvements for student use and safety while adding new larger classrooms contained in a new wing of the school.

Orange County High School is in the AAA (moved up for 2011–2012 school year) Commonwealth District of the VHSL, and offers a variety of sports, including swimming, basketball, indoor track, outdoor track, gymnastics, football, quizbowl, bear wrestling, golf, softball, tennis, cross country, field hockey, volleyball, lacrosse, and wrestling.

Students with the event wore T-shirts that read "Black Lives Matter", and "I Can't Breathe", referencing several high-profile police incidents from across the country.

"The real reason everyone is upset is that they've tried to tell children not to trust our police officers here in the community, not only here but across the country," said Art Magner On social media, people mentioned threats of violence and protesting at the schools.

In its fifth year, it is a program designed by high school students to present information about Black History, up to and including current-day events.