The Black Eagles football team went 14-0 and won the 2008 Class AAA State title in a 39-8 win over George Washington High School on December 6, 2008.

In 1971 a new, much larger school and campus complex was built on the former site of Southmoor Country Club in the Spring Hill area of town.

The first band was led by Charles Gorby, whose music store founded in 1946 in downtown South Charleston is somewhat of a local landmark.

[citation needed] In 1999, SCHS became the first school in West Virginia to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program.

SCHS is still the only high school in West Virginia to offer the IB program, more than ten years after it was introduced into the state.

A commons area referred to by the students and staff as the "Piazza" was added to the front of the school and became the current entrance to the building.

The new classrooms were added to the back of the school that now house the history department and are referred to as "The New Wing" by students and staff.

In 2008, the Black Eagles capped a 14-0 season with a 39-8 rout of George Washington to win the Class AAA Football State Championship.

Instead, they played at Oakes Field, built in the 1920s with a seating capacity of about 2,000 fans, in downtown South Charleston.