The district is centered around the Roanoke Valley in Southwest Virginia and is named for the Blue Ridge Mountains, which feature prominently in the region's geography.
These two new schools gave the district eleven members that year except in football, where Cave Spring remained in AAA and Hidden Valley did not play a full schedule.
The other group of six schools formed the AA River Ridge District.
[1] The district is composed of large and medium-sized high schools primarily in the eastern and northern areas of the Roanoke Valley.
The new, larger Alleghany High School has since adopted Covington's Cougar nickname