The school's preschool program, student services offices, and dental clinic are in the building.
[1] Harbour View Elementary School has a bee as a mascot, with a celebration held every month at their "Super Bee Assembly"; this celebrates all the wonderful things happening within the school that month.
Harbour View has an active Breakfast Program and provides hot lunch three days a week, and snacks the other two.
The neighbourhood welcomes many newcomers to Canada and has a large African Nova Scotian community.
Halifax Regional Centre for Education stated that by October 2024, "Our enrollment will likely surpass 60,000".