[7] The school was ranked 169th in the nation and 12th in New Jersey on the list of "America's Best High Schools 2012" prepared by The Daily Beast / Newsweek, with rankings based primarily on graduation rate, matriculation rate for college and number of Advanced Placement / International Baccalaureate courses taken per student, with lesser factors based on average scores on the SAT / ACT, average AP/IB scores and the number of AP/IB courses available to students.
[17] The Bernards High School Mountaineers[3] compete in the Skyland Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools covering Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren counties, and operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).
[19] The football team competes in Division 2A of the Big Central Football Conference, which includes 60 public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union and Warren counties, which are broken down into 10 divisions by size and location.
The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.
[26] The 1976 team won the Group I title with a 4-1 win against Kinnelon in the final match of the playoffs.
[27] After defeating Leonia High School 3-2 in the semifinals, the 2003 team won the Group I title against Point Pleasant Beach by 5-0 in the tournament finals at Mercer County Park.
[37] The 2006-07 Bernards boys soccer team won the Skyland Conference championship in their inaugural year there.
[38] The girls basketball team won the Central Jersey Group 1 championship in 1997 with a 66-32 against Highland Park High School in the finals.
[43] The team defeated Columbia High School by a score of 16-11 in 2007 to take the program's first state title.
[45][46][47] The girls' track team had four All-Americans in 2010, with its 4x800 team taking 5th place at the New Balance Nationals track meet, with the 7th fastest time in the nation, breaking the Somerset County record and was the fastest time in New Jersey that year.
[48] The 2017 girls lacrosse team finished the season with a record of 20-3 after winning the Group II state championship, defeating Haddonfield Memorial High School by score of 15-5 in the tournament final.
[49][50] The football team won the North II Group II state sectional title in 2023, the program's first, with a 23-17 overtime win in the tournament final against Lakeland Regional High School, bringing the team's record to 12-0.
[51] In the second semester of 2006–07, the Bernards Mountaineers Marching Band was invited to travel to perform in the state's second-largest Mardi Gras parade in Houma, Louisiana, a community that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, to recognize the five truckloads of supplies that had been sent by Bernards residents to aid the community in its recovery efforts.
Successful completion of an IB Diploma could lead students to earn college credit.
The school had to end the program due to the incoming budget cuts in the next fiscal year from the then new governorship of Chris Christie.
[54] However, others felt the budget decisions were painful, and then-superintendent Peter Miller said, "I feel like I'm getting the rug pulled out from underneath me," and that the school "had the money available.