Students are neither required to take an admission exam nor need to live within the boundaries set by the administering district.

[2][3] Originally built in 1962, the Skyline High School is a 0.15 km² (0.06 mi²) medium-sized campus located at the mouth of Millcreek Canyon, just west of I-215.

Because most of the seniors chose to remain at Olympus High, the majority of Skyline's 1963 football team was made up of sophomores and juniors.

The first year was difficult for Skyline, but by the late sixties the football program had improved and had won two state championships in 1967 and 1969.

[7] In the 1990s, Skyline's football program was led by head coach Roger Dupaix and played once again in the state playoffs.

[8] In 1999, Skyline football won a fifth consecutive 5A state title and was ranked 24th in the nation by USA Today.

Skyline was one of the original 5A schools, when 5A was established in Utah in 1993, but due to decreasing student enrollment, was moved to the 4A program in 2011.

In 2006, 2008, and 2009 Skyline won the 4x800 meter relay at the Davis High School Track and Field Invitational.

Class of 2020 graduate Thomas Boyden set a then state record of 4:05 in the 1600 meters, before going on to have a successful career at Stanford Skyline's hockey team won the 2010 state championship over Viewmont High School, and went on to finish in the top 15 at the USA Hockey High School National Championships held in Chicago, Illinois.

The hockey team repeated the win in 2011 in a 3-2 overtime victory over Bingham High School.

Skyline men and women won state titles in water polo three years in a row (2002, 2003, and 2004), under coach Rod Horton.

[18] Skyline garnered much attention in November 2012 for being the first high school in the world to participate in SC's Student Cluster Competition[19] in the LittleFe Track.

Skyline's school newspaper is The Horizon, a quarterly printed publication, with new articles on their website once a week.