New Caney High School offers Advanced Placement courses, athletics, career and technology courses, dual credit, National Honor Society, and a host of special programs.

That original building is still in use as the district's "The Learning Center" alternative school, and as the NCISD police department and emergency operations center.

NCHS was located at on the southbound side of Interstate 69 in Porter until the building burned down in the 1980s.

For each school year, the Texas Education Agency rates school performance using an A–F grading system based on statistical data.

For 2018–2019, the school received a score of 79 out of 100, resulting in a C grade.