The high school opened in 1948 with an initial enrollment of a few hundred students.

By the late 1950s and early 1960s, the school's enrollment was exceeding its capacity and causing overcrowding.

Most students who previously attended SBHS were rezoned to Northbrook and Spring Woods.

Many of the buildings that had made up SBHS were torn down in 2015 so that a new facility for the SBSC could be built in its place.

A museum containing memorabilia from the former SBHS opened in October 2017 on the site of the old school's library.