It serves most of South Bend, Indian Village, Notre Dame, and Roseland, as well as portions of Granger and Mishawaka.

[4] In 2018 residents of Greene Township began plans to join the John Glenn School Corporation and leave the South Bend corporation, partly because the Greene Intermediate Center, the district's final school in the township, closed in 2018, with the parents anticipating a reopening under new management.

[5] At first the South Bend district did not approve of the plan, but in 2022 began talks on how to let Greene Township move to John Glenn.

The current magnet programs are: Adams- Global Studies/International Baccalaureate, Riley- Technology and Engineering, Clay- Visual and Performing Arts, and Washington- Medical/Allied Health Sciences.

The vision of Plan Z, was to create schools zones that made sense logistically, as well as provide choices and opportunities for the SBCSC families.

Prior to August 2015 students from all grade levels had to maintain a 2.0, but that month the board voted to relax the GPA standards.