There is a view of the playing fields and the back part of the campus from BART trains.

On September 25, 1959, the newly chartered State College for Alameda County – now California State University, East Bay – welcomed its first 293 students to classes in temporary quarters at Sunset High School.

In the summer of 1966, runners from the track team got together and ran a continuous relay around the clock with the goal of beating Tennyson High School's World Record of a little over 4,000 miles completed in the summer of 1965.

After 52 days, Sunset High School did set a World Record of 10,035 1/2 miles of non stop running.

In 1970, social studies students at Sunset High School researched and wrote the book A History of Hayward.