[6] Perry is an Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) member school offering boys and girls sports complying with Title IX.

In 2015, their production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was chosen as Arizona's chapter select at the International Thespian Festival.

state champions of the Central Region for seven consecutive years until 2019, when the Arizona Thespian Society discontinued its competitive ranking system.

Perry High also has a choir who in 2011 sang at Carnegie Hall in New York City,[9] as well as an Orchestra who played there in 2015, earning first place at the event.

[11][12][13] This change brought national attention to the library and provoked debate about the effectiveness of the Dewey Decimal System.