The school feeder zone covers students in the southern suburbs of Hobart such as Taroona, Dynnyrne and Sandy Bay but students also come from access schools in a wide range of other areas such as West Hobart and Blackmans Bay.

[8][9][10] Art at Taroona High School includes the International Orange mural (which is blue and white) painted in 2015 by Josh Foley.

[11] in 2011 in the Art for Public Buildings Scheme, a work called Chaos Theory was made in sandblasted glass and cut vinyl by Designhaus.

[4] School houses are called Crayfish, Gellibrand, Cartwright and Droughty after land prominences into the Derwent River.

[17] Taroona@UTAS has a timetable that is in-line with that of Hobart College's to easily facilitate dual enrollment.

Lobbying for a high school south of Hobart to take students from Sandy Bay, Taroona, and the Channel district happened in 1952.

[21] On 3 July 1990 two students and a teacher from the school drowned in Mystery Creek Cave near Lune River.

To the south of the school campus is its access road, Meath Avenue and Melinga Place.

Movement to the northwest is happening, the tennis court moved about 40 mm in 11 years, and a survey marker near the road entrance has shifted 0.4 m since 1961.

The situation is being monitored with a real time inclinometer, and a vibrating wire piezometer, as well as survey markers and a GPS station to see where the school moves.