The original campus, with grades kindergarten (previously referred to as "pre-first") through eighth, opened in 1958 with 152 students.

In June 2003 construction of the school's tennis courts resulted in the discovery of ancient Native American graves.

[4] The developer petitioned the Davidson County Chancery Court, and was granted permission to remove and relocate all burials within the construction zone to an adjacent portion of the school property.

[4] Artifacts recovered during these investigations revealed the site was occupied over a 9000-year time frame stretching from the Early Archaic through Mississippian periods.

Beginning around 1798, the land containing EHS was situated within a large agricultural property owned and farmed by the families of brothers Giles and Thomas Harding.

[6] This home was included in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1974, due to the architectural integrity of the main house and the significance of the Harding family to the early settlement of the Nashville area.

The theater offers a fully equipped venue for student drama, music, and dance performances.

The theater also houses a scenery construction workshop, sound, lighting and production facilities, green room, and teaching spaces.

[11] In September 2011, the school opened a new gymnasium on the Red Gables Campus, called the Brown Athletic Center.

The first floor features a basketball court that sports the school's colors, bright orange and black.

The middle floor features the girls' lockers, a spirit store, and a concessions stand for games held in the gymnasium.

There have been individual state championships won in bowling, cross country, golf, swimming and diving, and track and field.