[3] The town was called "Stiles Switch" in 1876, named after a local rancher and the arrival of the International-Great Northern Railroad.

[9][10] Students resumed classes on January 20, "in the hastily renovated old high school building and the old auditorium".

[8] In 1997, voters passed a $2.73 million bond issue for improvements to the kindergarten through 12th-grade campus, including a primary school wing, as well as "an athletic complex, a cafeteria and a band hall" and conversion of the existing band hall and cafeteria to classrooms for secondary grades.

Distance runners had been training on city streets, and the field house dressing rooms had been too small for the school's population of about 500 students.

They compete in cross country, volleyball, football, basketball, powerlifting, golf, track, tennis, baseball, and softball.