Assistant principals are Melissa Walsh, Chad A. Smith, and Amos Whitehead.

[7] The 2008-2009 & 2010-2011 Powell Baseball team finished in first place in the Tennessee AAA District 3.

[8] Beginning in 2009, the Powell High School Teen Driver Awareness Program has existed to raise awareness of the unusually high rate of teenaged automobile fatalities of current and recently graduated students of Powell High School.

[9] The program seeks to educate students to the need for seatbelt use, occasionally rewarding students caught using their seat belts on campus with gift certificates to local merchants.

The Rural Metro Fire Department, Knox County Sheriffs Office and the Knoxville Volunteer Rescue Squad stage an annual demonstration of the potential effects of a fatal vehicle accident, utilizing students from the Powell High School Drama Department as mock victims.