At the time, the Board of Education President was Ernest W. Seaholm (retired Chief Engineer for Cadillac)[4] and the treasurer was Wylie E. Groves.

[7] The Forensics Team has consistently enjoyed success at the state-finalist level.

Quiz Bowl team has also had success, winning a national championship in 1991 at the American Scholastics Competition Network Tournament of Champions and a state championship in 1994.

[8] The student newspaper, the Seaholm Highlander, has won multiple prestigious Spartan Awards from the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, the reduction in bureaucracy, interaction and collaboration between teachers, the interdisciplinary nature, and flexible time schedules made the program attractive.