The grant provides numerous courses of study and allows the school to offer a variety of Advanced Placement classes including AP English, Statistics, Physics, Calculus AB and BC, Computer Science, Studio Art, World and U.S. History, Spanish, French, Government, Economics, Chemistry, and Biology, as well as many honors courses.

RHS also offers career education via the Regional Occupational Program in the performing, visual, and technical arts.

Students may earn a diploma seal by completing a community service project, taking an AP Social Science class, and being involved in school governance.

The school is a charter member of the Coastal Canyon League (CCL), a conference within the CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS) that was established in 2014.

[citation needed] As of 2008, the Royal High School boys' soccer team has won 3 CIF-SS championships and 17 league titles.