Most teams in the Tri-Metro compete in basketball and football tournaments at the AA or AAA level.

While for the past twenty years a majority of schools in the conference had been private, the conference make up has changed in the past decade, with Brooklyn Center and St. Anthony, Columbia Heights and Fridley being public schools.

[5] The Tri-Metro initially rejected the applications of St. Anthony and Brooklyn Center for membership before the MSHSL placed the schools in the conference.

[8] For the 1998–99 school year, St. Paul Academy, Visitation, and Mounds Park Academy left the Tri-Valley Conference to join the Tri-Metro, giving it the predominantly private school line-up had for years.

[11] Also in 2008, The Blake School won the Class A state title in boys Cross Country.