HHS serves grades nine through twelve, and its athletic teams are known as the Blue Streaks.

[2] It was rated "Fully Accredited" by the Virginia Department of Education for the 2017–2018 school year.

Harrisonburg High School was founded in 1879 and was initially located on South Main Street.

The entire complex renovated in 1994, on its hundredth anniversary, but was subsequently leased and later sold to James Madison University,[4] after the construction and opening of a new building on Garbers Church Road on August 24, 2005.

[7] [8] Harrisonburg is in the Group AA Valley District of the Virginia High School League.