[3] Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Catholic Church, supervises the school's religious orientation and spiritual formation.

[8][better source needed] The Heights School currently has 13 different sports teams : cross country, golf, soccer, basketball, squash, swimming, wrestling, baseball, lacrosse, tennis, track and field, rugby, and rock climbing.

In the fall of 2018 – the first year of membership in the WCAC – The Heights varsity soccer team won the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship following their undefeated season.

The league competes at indoor rock climbing gyms across the Washington DC metropolitan area, focusing on bouldering and top rope.

A group of Catholic laymen, many belonging to the Prelature of Opus Dei ("Work of God"), founded the Heights as a middle school in Northwest Washington, D.C. in 1969.