[4][5] The school's sports teams are known as the Patriots and they are notable for having been state champions in football in 1981 and runners up in 1976 and 1977.

[6] The football program also compiled a 28 game losing streak that ended with a 30-21 win over Shawnee High School in 2010.

[8] In 2016, Putnam City West's boys' basketball team beat Norman North High School for the 6A state title.

[9] Most recently, the school's girls basketball program won the 6A state championship for the 2023-2024 season [10] Putnam City West High School was opened in 1968 to relieve overcrowding at neighboring Putnam City High School during a period of suburbanization in western Oklahoma City.

During this period from the 1960s through the late 1980s the Putnam City Public Schools District experienced a great increase in student enrollment numbers from ongoing suburban development, fueled in part by white flight due to desegregation and busing court orders that affected Oklahoma City Public Schools.