[2][3] The campus is located 15 miles northeast of Peoria, Illinois, and serves a mixed city, village, and rural residential community.

[5] IVC's first appearance in the IHSA Final Four was in the 2006 Class A Boys Basketball State Championship where the Ghosts fell to Seneca HS 44–47.

In November 2022, IVC made the Class 2A girls volleyball state finals for the first time in program history.

[9] IVCHS co-ops with nearby Dunlap High School for some athletics (boys' and girls' swimming and diving).

Most notably, IVC has hosted a biannual GAPP exchange program with Max von Laue Gymnasium in Koblenz, Germany since 1980.