[5] Union High School has State Department of Education and North Central Association accreditation.

[citation needed] The following is a list of the sports in which the school competes, as well as the years, if any, during which the school's team won the state championship:[6] The band's winter percussion and guard ensembles have earned multiple awards on a national level competing at WGI events.

[8][9] Union's use of the "Redskins" team name has exposed it to some criticism, similar to the controversy faced by other schools using mascots referring to Native Americans.

Some Native American groups saw this as an appropriate time to renew their calls to pressure Union to abandon the Redskins name, since it appeared that the school would have to change its uniforms in any event.

However, in January 2003, Union settled Miami's claim by agreeing to pay $1,000 per year for the continuing right to use the split-U logo.