[3] Herriman High School was opened in 2010 at the cost of $75 million and saw the construction of a main building with a capacity of 3,000 students, an auditorium, cafeteria, football stadium with synthetic turf, tennis courts, baseball and soccer fields, parking lots, and driving range.

[4][5] The school also houses a ceramic studio complete with three kiln ovens and a class set of throwing wheels, a fully equipped automative garage, and a wood workshop.

[16] The Jordan School District that Herriman High operates within was queried by multiple U.S. news media organizations about the censorship and free speech rights of students, including the Washington Post.

[18] In April 2019, The Wall Street Journal published a report which described how the high school may have suffered a mental health crisis the previous year.

[23] Herriman High School has an athletics department that includes baseball, basketball, cross country, drill team, football, golf, hockey, marching band, rugby, soccer, softball, swim, tennis, track, volleyball, water-polo, and wrestling.