[2][3] The campus is located 27 miles southeast of Dubuque, Iowa, and serves a mixed village and rural residential community.

[4] Additionally, in 2019, River Ridge ranked as the 6,919 best school in the United States, and 219 in Illinois based on U.S. News & World Report.

Their mascot is the Wildcats, with school colors of navy blue and grey.

Due to their small enrollment, RRHS coops with neighboring high schools for several sports (Scales Mound High School for Boys Baseball, Boys Golf, Girls Basketball, and Girls Softball; Galena High School for Girls Soccer; and Galena and East Dubuque High School for Boys and Girls Track and Field).

Surrounding communities may have possessed high schools at some time which were consolidated into the current RRHS.