The original Five Points High School stood on a hill one-half mile east of U.S. Highway 431. The imposing brick building had two floors above a full basement and a large auditorium that seated 400 people. Erected in 1916, it stood on an 18-acre campus and was the only rural school in Alabama with its own electrical and steam-generating plant and water works. The school building was replaced by a one-story building in 1939, and in 1974 a fire destroyed that structure, which was replaced by the present building.