Among the sports in which the school excels, the men's sumo and women's baseball clubs are recognized as some of the best in the country.

In 2011, Hiroaki Suzuki takes over from Takashi Satō who is hospitalized for recurrent hypertension problems.

[8] In this particular course, Saitama Sakae High School graduated have gone on to success in sports such as sumo, badminton, baseball and track and field.

Tottori Jōhoku High School has athletic facilities including an artificial turf field, tartan course, baseball field, training room, and arena gymnasium.

[14] The club's current director, Michinori Yamada, is a graduate of Nihon University and amateur yokozuna.

[16] In November 2022, the running team seted records of 13:59 at a competition in Yokohama City and at the national 5,000 metres tournament.

[19] In 2022, two 17-year-old members of the sumo club found a child who had been missing all morning.

For their actions, the students received a certificate of commendation from Omiya Nishi Police Station.

[24] In March 2023, the members of the association football team had to publish an official apology video after some of their members had ironically commented on the fate of the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake in a video that became viral.