Redlands East Valley is a 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m2) comprehensive high school located on a 57-acre (230,000 m2) sloping site, designed to house 2,500 students.

[citation needed] The majority of the building exteriors are built with concrete masonry, exposed structural steel, glass, and metal roofs.

The Performing Arts Theater is named in honor of Harry Blackstone Jr., a stage magician who lived in Redlands.

[citation needed] With REV's victory over the Citrus Hill Hawks on November 28, 2014, the school became the first in the district since 1979 to reach the CIF finals.

[4] In 2011 Redlands East Valley Wrestler Chris Mecate became the school's first ever individual CIF state champion.