The building was expanded in the 1950s with the addition of a large gymnasium and an annex housing a junior high school.

White families began fleeing the district, and by 1972 the school's population was almost 100 percent black.

In 1983, a new campus was built on Langdon Road in Dallas, north of Hutchins and closer to most of the student body.

[4] In 2004 the school closed since a rainstorm damaged the roof and the district was unable to get the problem fixed in a timely manner.

Mark Dent of The Dallas Morning News wrote that WHISD's "inability to pay for repairs exposed its financial deficits and ineptitude.

[14] The school district enclosed the plaza entrance and added air conditioning and geothermal heating systems.

[21] Wilmer-Hutchins has made 20 football playoff appearances, winning the 1990 Class AAAA State Football Championship by defeating Austin Westlake 19-7 at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas on a bitterly cold day with temperatures in the teens and a sub-zero windchill.

[5] The first home game for the new Eagle football team was on August 26, 2011 against the Moisés E. Molina High School Jaguars.

The ethnic composition of students in the 2019-2020 school year was 56% African American, 40% Hispanic, 2% White, and 2% others, including Asian and Multiracial.

Of the 914 students, 675 (74%) were considered economically disadvantaged, 123 (14%) were considered special needs, 55 (6%) were enrolled in gifted and talented programs, and 238 (26%) were limited English proficiency.https://schools.texastribune.org/districts/dallas-isd/wilmer-hutchins-high-school/ Wilmer-Hutchins High Schools's performance on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), a state standardized test used from 1991 to 2003, was generally at or below state standards.