Since the orchestral program was created in 1986, Sprague's Camerata Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra have won a combined 25 Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) State Championships, and the program flourished under the direction of Steve A. Nelson.

[8] Beginning in 1993, and every fourth year until 2005 (1997, 2001, 2005), Sprague's Orchestra Program has traveled to Austria, where the Camerata has been named the "Top High School String Orchestra in the World" on multiple occasions after winning the Vienna Youth and Music Festival in 1997 and 2005.

[9] Sprague High School Marching Band and Color Guard won the Oregon state championship in 1984, 1985, and 1986.

The marching band competed in the California state championships in San Jose in 1984, coming in second place by only 3/4 of a point.

The color guard, named the Starlighters Winterguard, won the Western Dream Pageant Scholastic division with the highest score up to that point in 1986, having an undefeated season.

[citation needed] In 2017, under the direction of Dr. Richard Greenwood, the band won the 6A OSAA state championship for the first time since 2012.

Sprague band has participated in many Heritage Festivals[10] in Anaheim and San Francisco, California over the years.

During the 2004-2005 school year, Sprague won both the football and baseball state championships, marking the first time since 1998[34][35] that a major Oregon high school was a state champion in two of the "Big 3" (football, basketball, and baseball) in the same year.