Located at Routes 11 and 701, ten miles south of Staunton, it is one of five high schools serving Augusta County.

An eight million dollar program, completed in 1997, provided renovation with improved and expanded instructional, athletic, and support facilities.

Students are transported by buses covering an area which extend eighteen miles at certain points.

Forming the school community are areas such as Moffatts Creek, McKinley, Newport, Vesuvius, Mint Spring, Middlebrook, Greenville, Spottswood, Lofton, White Hill, Jollivue, and the southern sections of both the Stuarts Draft area and the Beverley Manor District.

The student body is stable; about 90 percent of the senior class have been at Riverheads all their high school experience.