[2] The school is located on a 43-acre (170,000 m2) campus in the Greenbrier West area of the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, United States.

[6] This resulted in the radio station with callsign WFOS – which stands for "W Frommel Oscar Smith" – founded at the high school and currently located at the Chesapeake Center for Science and Technology, transmitting since 1973 on frequency 88.7 FM MHz for the Southside of Hampton Roads and via radio stream online.

WFOS features Blues, Beach, Oldies, R&B and a wide variety of other music, as well as national and local news.

[7] The school moved to its current location on Great Bridge Boulevard and Tiger Drive in Chesapeake's Greenbrier section in 1994.

As part of his 2008 Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama held a town hall meeting in the J. William Myers gymnasium on 21 August 2008.

Edward Leroy Beard (born 9 December 1939 in Chesapeake) attended the school from 1955 to 1959 and played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1965 to 1972.

Kenneth Mason Easley Jr. (born 15 January 1959 in Chesapeake) attended the school from 1973 to 1977 and played for the Seattle Seahawks from 1981 to 1987.

[16] The Tigers won their third state title in spring 2021, defeating the South County Stallions in a rematch of the 2019 championship game.