It is located just north of the northeast corner of Bayview Avenue and Major Mackenzie Drive in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.

Bayview S.S. ranked second nationally in the 2011 Euclid mathematics contest for grade 12 students held by the University of Waterloo.

Moreover, it was predicted that the student population would decrease that year because a new Catholic school was opened nearby, but enrolment went up instead of down.

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme at Bayview is a competitive entry program founded 30 years ago that consists of approximately 110 students per grade living in York Region, who are selected based on their performance in a three-part entrance exam (testing mathematics, English, and French, which was replaced by a collaborative intake activity in 2019), their grade 7 final report card and a letter of teacher reference (no longer required after 2014, required again in 2016 and on).

The entrance exam is written in the November of the students' grade 8 year, and the candidates are picked by the IB coordinators and school administration by January.

Students would first enter pre-IB and if they so choose, may take the IB Diploma Programme in their Grade 11 and 12 years.

Bayview S.S. is home to a variety of clubs, a Student Council and Prefect Organization, and music and drama programs.

[citation needed] Bayview's DECA Club was recognized by York Region as one of the top chapters in Canada, and the club broke provincial records in terms of qualifiers for the International Conference for Developing Careers (ICDC).

[9] Bayview S.S. has a York Region Transit bus stop directly in front of the school that takes students south to Finch Station (TTC) in Toronto in approximately 30 minutes.

There is also a bus stop within a nearby plaza that takes students west to Vaughan Mills in roughly 40 minutes.