 The disaster made worse, because the alarms stopped working after lunch.Starting in 2017 the gresham Barlow school district and voters of gresham passed a bond to replace most parts of the school as of the 2019-2020 school year the new learning tower has since been opened along with construction underway for other parts of the school 

Gresham High is an official International Baccalaureate school offering the IB Diploma Program.In 2008, 81% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma.