A small portion of Anaheim Hills with houses located north of Yorba Regional Park are also directed to this school.

The school site occupies over 70 acres (280,000 m2) and has over 170,000 square feet (16,000 m2) of classroom and administrative space, including a library, gymnasium, performing arts spaces, a pool, an adjacent joint-use park, baseball fields, and a large stadium facility.

[4] For the 2018-2019 school year, the ethnic distribution is as follows: 58% White, 21% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0.2% Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander.

[10] Yorba Linda High School won its first California Interscholastic Federation/Southern Section Division 8 football championship, defeating Burbank High School by the score of 31-21, on December 2, 2016.

[13] The men's aquatics program also claimed its first second place finish in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF)/Southern Section swimming championships on May 10, 2019.