It was a part of the Carroll County School District It occupies a 10-acre (4.0 ha) property, and is in a 28,252-square-foot (2,624.7 m2) three story classroom building.
[2] The Vaiden city government paid $2 in June 2002 to buy much of the Vaiden High property, including a double wide trailer that was once used as a cafeteria, the agricultural classes building, and the home economics building.
In 2003 the Mayor of Vaiden, George Turbeville, stated that he wanted to institute supplementary educational programs.
[1] At one time Billy Joe Ferguson, who later became superintendent of Carroll County schools, was principal at Vaiden High.
[2] In early April 1988, the gymnasium was used to house production wardrobe, hairstyling and makeup for extras performing in Mississippi Burning, for courtroom and sheriff's office scenes filmed in the old Carroll County Courthouse nearby (demolished a few years later) and for scenes of a funeral procession down Mulberry Street in front of the offscreen courthouse.