On May 8, 2001 the voters of Bartlesville, Oklahoma approved a ten-year $30.5 million bond issue, with over $23 million designated for facility improvements at Bartlesville High School (BHS). The improvements came in several phases over the span of the bond issue. The last of the projects will wrap up in 2008.

The construction projects will have addresssed many of the facility's shortcomings by the time it reaches 70 years of use in 2009. Over the decades the campus has become a quilt of buildings of varying ages.

The bond issue's origins trace back to a Long Range Facilities Planning Committee that met from February through December, 2000 to identify district facility needs. That committee's recommendations led to the bond issue, which was promoted by a Bond Issue Communication Committee. The bond issue was passed by a 72% super-majority of voters, and the projects proceeded with input from the Board of Education's Facilities Committee, various Bond Design Steering Committees and a Bond Oversight Committee.

In May 2007 voters approved another $30 million bond issue for a variety of projects around the district. Eventually BHS will have new climate control systems for the middle portion of the main building, new windows on the east side and annex, new lockers, renovations of the locker rooms at Custer Stadium, and an indoor athletics practice facility.