The school is a financially independent self-owning educational institution under the Danish state.

[3] The natural science programme includes subjects such as biotechnology, physics, chemistry and biology; the political science programme subjects such as social studies, economics, psychology and media studies; and language and arts programmes with subjects such as French, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek and music.

In the 1960s the school commission in the, now defunct, Vejlby-Risskov Municipality suggested that the fifth gymnasium in the vicinity of Aarhus should be placed in Vejlby.

[4] The first students started in 1968 in rented rooms as the school buildings had not yet been completed.

In 2007 the school changed its name to Risskov Gymnasium (RiG), since the Danish counties had been disbanded in 2007.