It has approximately 2,408 students and employs 90 teachers, 62 support staff, 4 administrators, 4 counselors, 1 psychologist and 1 librarian.

It is on a trimester-based system with class periods 70 minutes long from Tuesday through Thursday.

Other activities include automobile repair and design, choir, marching band, and photography.

The student, Tyler Chase Harper, filed suit, claiming that the school had violated his constitutional rights.

[16] In 2011, in a separate case, Johnson v. Poway Unified School District, the Ninth Circuit found that the school board could order a teacher to remove religious decorations (specifically, 7-foot wide, 2-foot high banners bearing Christian phrases) from his classroom, holding that the speech of teachers in school settings is government speech.

[18] The general population in the district reached about 186,195 in 2014, of which about 33,000 were students, including kindergarten through the twelfth grade.

[19] In rare cases, students living in the nearby town of Ramona attend Poway High School because it is better funded.