At its beginning, the district was five miles square and classes were held in the second story of a building on the corner of Kansas Avenue and Main Street 1988 In the year 1888 the district established the first high school, offering a two-year course.

During the next ten years seventy students were graduated from this two-year high school.

1874 The first building to be built by the district in 1874 was a two-story structure of native stone, located near the corner of East Court and South Jefferson, and that area was the school grounds until 1972, when the present Junior/Senior High School building was built at its present site.

1907 In 1907 a brick building was built on the northeast corner of the same block to house the high school.

1917 A new high school building was built in 1917 to the latest standards of that er and served well until condemned in 1972 due to ever increasing requirements of the state, and was razed soon after the present Junior/Senior High School building was built.

The present Junior/Senior High School building was completed on a new 36-acre site at the northeast corner of Smith Center, Built at a cost of S1.538.344.00, it contains 90.000 square feet: it has a student capacity of 525. and contains a 650-seat gymnasium, a 499-seat auditorium, administrative offices, classrooms, library, shop area, and a kitchen large enough to serve all students during lunch hour.

[8][9][10] The Smith Center Redmen are widely considered one of the best little high school football teams in America.

In addition, from 2004 to 2009, the Redmen held the nation's longest winning streak at 79 games.