The board bought 42 acres (170,000 m2) of land in the southern portion of the city and started the construction of the new high school.

[5] The school was planned to open in 1971, but funding issues pushed back construction of the second phase of the building.

However, the air-conditioning system was prone to failure and the school was difficult to keep cool in warm weather due to the fact that the windows were not designed to be opened.

In 1979, the west wing opened, which adopts the same basic design of the original 1971 building but with a finished basement.

In the early 1990s, three science classrooms north of the west wing and the Performing Arts Center near the commons area were added.

The area under the auxiliary gym added other athletic facilities, making room for four new classrooms elsewhere in the building.

The school offers 18 Advanced Placement courses and a multitude of honors classes available to students.

He ordered custom marching band uniforms that were green with a large white bib with a troll on the front of them.

Fall sports include cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis and volleyball.

Rock Bridge has won Football State Championships with undefeated teams in 1975 and 1977.

In 1995, the school created a prerequisite class called Journalistic Writing, and the paper became a monthly publication.