[6] It is part of the province's Anglophone East School District, offering education to students from grade nine to twelve.

The school was founded in September 1978 starting with two Grade 10 classes.

Prior to that date Grades 10 through 12 from the then community of Riverview Heights attended Moncton High School.

In 2006 the auditorium began to operate independently for community use and plays host to many different shows each year, including a Stereos/The Midway State concert in November 2009.

The school has a theatre (The Riverview Arts Centre),[8] a gymnasium, music rooms, a cafeteria, a library, a swimming pool,[9] a courtyard, two art rooms, three computer labs, a woodshop, automotive lab, a culinary tech room/kitchen, and three science labs.