It is located in the unincorporated Wheaton-Glenmont section of Montgomery County, near Silver Spring, about 5 miles north of Washington, D.C.

The Institute of Global and Cultural Studies has a state of the art digital music lab featuring 34 new iMac computers and Roland Fp-4 keyboards equipped with studio microphones and such software as Garageband, Logic, Final Cut, Sibelius, and Synthesia.

[3] U.S. News & World Report noted that Wheaton High School's Advanced Placement participation rate is 70 percent.

A decade earlier, before the state championship system was implemented, Wheaton earned back-to-back county co-championships in football by upending highly ranked Richard Montgomery in the season finales of both 1969 and 1970.

The boys' gymnastics teams of the 1970s, coached by Bernie Michels, regularly dominated competition in Montgomery County.

On October 31, 2023, the Wheaton Girls Soccer Team won its first Regional Championship beating Richard Montgomery 2 - 0.

Wheaton's primary rival is John F. Kennedy High School, located down Randolph Road.

[5] In January 2016, Wheaton High School took up residence in the new building located at the corner of Randolph Road and Dalewood Drive.

This project-based curriculum will give students more hands-on projects and fewer lectures and quizzes.