Since , Erik Perryman has served as principal. The school district which serves as the high school's attendance boundary includes Moscow and Viola. Less than three blocks east of Main Street on a moderate slope, its current compact campus opened 86 years ago in , with wings added in [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and The previous high school of is across Third Street to the north; it was used as the junior high until and is now the " Center.
Originally a four-year high school, MHS was a senior high school grades 10β12 for 46 years, beginning in In the oldest part of Moscow, the MHS campus became the location of an archeological dig by the university's department of sociology and anthropology in autumn It was dropped a classification level in , [ 24 ] but successfully appealed for three years to stay. Moscow's most successful run in athletics came in baseball under longtime head coach Gary Johnson.
The early MHS basketball team won four straight Idaho titles β20 , [ 31 ] and more recently, the girls' basketball team won three consecutive A-2 state championships β94 and another in for four in five years.
In the β season, the state of Idaho was the "test state" for the 3-point line for the entire nation for high schoolers.
That season there was tremendous excitement which attracted large crowds to the games. That same year an unusual requirement from the state was created as there were only two teams in the league at that time; Moscow and Orofino.
