First opened at its current location in 1979, Sussex Regional High School serves families from as far away as Coles Island, Bloomfield, Anagance, and Jeffries Corner.

Like the community of Sussex, a small municipality of less than five thousand which draws on a surrounding population of more than thirty thousand, Sussex Regional High represents a wide variety of backgrounds, interests, and abilities.

SRHS students may participate in extracurricular activities including varsity and junior varsity men's and women's hockey, volleyball, basketball, curling, golf, and rugby.

Women's softball and field hockey and men's baseball, football and co-ed track and field are also offered along with a wide variety of clubs, societies and committees.

The school also has an active and engaging drama and theatre club who throughout the years have collected numerous awards from the New Brunswick Drama Festival and many awards won for their improv team.