Servicing grades Nine through Twelve, it has close to 1600 students, and is the only public high school in Coventry, Rhode Island.

In the 2012–2013 season, the boys lacrosse team continued its momentum finishing first in DIII South and advanced to the Division III RI State championship game.

Although the team was again defeated by Smithfield (undefeated for 3 consecutive seasons), The Coventry High School Boy Varsity Lacrosse team under the leadership of Coach DeSimone, is widely recognized as one of the rising powerhouses in Rhode Island high school lacrosse.

[citation needed] They then ended the drought and brought the championship back home in 2022, led by Aidan Robichaud , Hayden Myers and Peyton Ellis.

Also, in 1984 Coventry High School's hockey program went 24-0 and had 210 GF and 6 GA winning the state title.

Coventry High School Basketball program has a storied history starting in the 1950s with the likes of Ted Szymcowic and Dick "Bevo" Gaudett leading the team.

Coventry High School's Varsity Fastpitch Softball team won two consecutive RIIL Division 1 State Championships in 2009 and 2010.

Coventry High School was formed in 1934, presumably across Knotty Oak Road (called Rice Field, used for pop-warner football now).

During the summer of 2001, more additions were done to the building including the expansion of the 1991 addition, a preschool, another cafeteria, more along the westside of the school (which face the athletic fields) as well as the south face (student parking lot, and the movement of the Career and Tech educational programs (up until 2001, the tech programs' were still being taught at the foster drive location, which incidentally were being converted over to school admin offices).