The building is located in the Crescent Park neighborhood in the East-central area of the city.

The focus of Cochrane's specialized education curriculum was to prepare students to enter the employment field upon graduation.

Fifty percent of Cochrane's student body are of self-declared Aboriginal ancestry.

Maclean's magazine named Cochrane as one of Canada's ten best high schools in 2004.

It was repurposed into a program called Campus Regina Public and is available to all grade 11 and 12 students registered with Regina Public Schools.