In recent years, the school has suffered persistent overcrowding due to its popular academic programs, extracurricular activities, and location in the burgeoning southern tier of the county.

It serves:[3] portions of the Oxon Hill and Fort Washington census-designated places,[2][4] as well as all of National Harbor CDP.

With an expanding suburban population,[citation needed] a larger campus opened in 1959,[7] on Leyte Drive in the Southlawn community.

During the years prior to desegregation, the student body was nearly all Caucasian, which gradually changed to majority African American (as did the local community).

[8] President Clinton alluded to the case when he made his remark about requiring school uniforms in his State of the Union address.

Scholarship award opportunities for Oxon Hill High School have exceeded twenty-three million dollars ($23,000,000.00) annually.

This includes extra science and technology-centered classes and a year-long research practicum project completed in the students' senior year.