[6] In 1891 the newly-incorporated Town of Oak Cliff voted to seek bids on a school building.

The newspaper reported: "Resolved by the city council of Oak Cliff that the mayor be instructed to advertise for plans for a modern three-story brick school building with brick cross walls [sic] to be erected at Oak Cliff, Texas, to contain twelve rooms for school purposes and the cost of said building, complete, not to exceed the sum of $22,000,…" The cornerstone was laid at the corner of Patton and Tenth streets for the school in September, 1892 under the auspices of the Masonic grand lodge of Texas.

The lot at 201 East Ninth Street has been the site of a Dallas high school facility since 1915.

[3] The 1924 Oak Cliff High School football team won the state championship, one of only two DISD high schools to win a state football title (Sunset, in 1950 with the now-discontinued "City" championship, is the other).

[10] Carter High School was forced to forfeit its 1988 Class AAAAA title, so its state championship no longer counted.

[citation needed] The location of Adamson High School is just four blocks from the Texas Theater where Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was captured.

[13] The new Adamson was built on the site of the Oak Cliff Christian Church, which DISD had demolished after preservationists had not found a buyer for the facility.

[14] On June 8, 2011, the old W. H. Adamson High School building was granted historical status by the Dallas City Council.