Morinville was for a long time served by high schools in neighbouring towns: the much older and larger settlement of St. Albert to the south, and the small agricultural village of Legal to the north.

The Grey Nuns had established a small convent, schoolhouse, and hospital in what was to become the settlement of St. Albert in 1864.

The most notable change of that period was in 1980 when French immersion was officially offered in the Morinville schools, reversing decades of "English-only" policy in what that originally been a francophone settlement.

On January 1, 1995, the three main schools in Legal and Morinville were joined into the Greater St. Albert Catholic Regional Division or GSACRD as part of a wave of school board consolidations across Alberta at that time.

Students are provided the option to study The Western Canadian Challenge (WCC) is an annual volleyball tournament that is hosted each October by Morinville Community High School.

The tournament's sponsors are ASICS, Pepsi, United Cycle, Mizuno, and the Morinville Lions Club.

Students may partake in an annual "coffee house" style talent show.