The school was built in 2003 and was named after Todd Morgan Beamer, a passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11, 2001 attacks.

[2][3] Todd Beamer Campus received a $675,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for staff development during the school's first three years.

Todd Beamer's sports teams are called the Titans and compete in the Olympic Division of the North Puget Sound League.

[6] TBHS made national news as a student brought three guns to school on April 19, 2007, just three days after The Virginia Tech Massacre.

The building was designed as an assemblage of structures around a central courtyard, similar to a village, to reinforce more personalized smaller groupings and recall the historic rural settlement patterns of the area.

The project was designed by Bassetti Architects to accommodate an easy conversion of the school into departmental-, academy-, grade-, or project-based learning models.