Currently, there are portable classrooms situated outside the main building to alleviate the continuing overpopulation problem.

The most recent addition was a hallway around the auditorium to alleviate the crowded junction on the first floor between the old and new wings.

[7] A shooting occurred at the Perry Hall cafeteria on the first day of school at 10:45 a.m., Monday, August 27, 2012.

The shooter, 15-year-old sophomore student Robert Gladden, Jr., attended the first three classes and then went to the school restroom during lunch, where he allegedly left a backpack that contained a 16 gauge shotgun and assembled and loaded it.

He exited the restroom with the shotgun hidden under his clothing and pulled it out in the cafeteria, where he opened fire.

A school counselor, Jesse Wasmer, immediately rushed to subdue Gladden by pinning him against a vending machine.

Richard Rosenthal, a mathematics teacher and more faculty members rushed Gladden, who fired into the ceiling during the struggle.