Located in the city of Haverhill, MA, United States, the school currently serves about 1400 students, with a 12:1 student-teacher ratio.

It serves many surrounding cities and towns primarily in the northern section of Essex County, accepting students from Haverhill, Newburyport, Newbury, West Newbury, Rowley, Amesbury, Merrimac, Georgetown, Groveland, Ipswich and Salisbury.

The school was named in honor of local resident, Quaker poet, and slavery abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier.

G. Whittier Middle School” located in Haverhill also named after the poet.

According to Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education annual statistics, for the 2018-2019 academic year, the demographic enrollment distributions for race, gender and grade level at Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School are as follows: