A part of Norton City Schools, it has an enrollment of approximately 320 students.

[4] They were completed on August 22 for the Raiders' first home football game of the season, against Rye Cove High School.

The facility was named in honor of Rickie M. Harris, a former student and school athlete who died five years prior as a result of an auto accident.

[8] In March 2011, the school's Lady Raider Basketball team won its first state championship, defeating Sussex Central 65-54 in the VHSL Group A, Division 1 final.

[12] In the 2010–2011 school year, John I. Burton was in one of only four school divisions in the state that made AYP (average yearly progress) as set by guidelines in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, a former national education mandate.