[3] As of 2010, the school teaches forty-seven courses for its students, and serves grades 6–12.

Mount View High School was built on Tom's Mountain and opened in the fall of 1978 and is still operational today.

In 2002, McDowell County Schools (MCS) decided to move the seventh and eighth grade to Mount View.

In 2005, MCS decided to move the sixth grade to Mount View.

[5] Despite having 420 students, the school is ranked third largest in West Virginia's Class A.