[1] It was the last traditional public high school in the Wilmington city limits.
Alumnus Dr. Pete Grandell of Elsmere stated that racial tensions evaporated by the 1960s.
[1] The school's final building was designed by Wilmington architects Whiteside, Moeckel & Carbonell.
[4] After 1978 a desegregation order resulted in the Wilmington area being divided amongst several school districts.
Wilmington High remained open as part of the Red Clay School District.