Operated by the District School Board of Niagara (DSBN), it had a student body of approximately 700 year-to-year.

[1][5][6] Niagara West-Glanbrook Member of Provincial Parliament Sam Oosterhoff, himself a recent high school graduate, has also voiced opposition to the amalgamation plans, and has spoken in the Ontario Legislative Assembly in favour of a moratorium on school closures.

[8] In 2018, the University of Waterloo revealed a formerly secret part of their engineering admissions process designed to counter grade inflation among high schools.

[9] Grimsby Secondary School faced significant criticism for having the highest adjustment factor out of any high school on the list, with Grimsby students seeing their grades drop by over 27 percent, versus an average Ontario high school student who only had their marks drop 17 percent.

[9] The District School Board of Niagara disputed this characterization, saying that the University of Waterloo only applies the adjustment factor to 10% of Ontario schools, and that "this very small sample does not reflect the hard work of our students and teachers.