As of 2024, the school principal is Jodye Routledge.[2] The athletic teams are the 'Griffins'. In 2015, there were approximately 867 students enrolled in grades 9–12 at the school.
The school is fully networked and offers a less than 1.9:1 student-to-computer ratio. The school was a part of Canada's SchoolNet Network of Innovative Schools program which is no longer active.
Campus and facilities
It has a less than 1.9:1 student-to-computer ratio.
The four wings are colour coordinated and each wing houses one subject as follows:
Yellow Wing/Upper East Wing: science
Green Wing/Upper West Wing: social studies
Red Wing/Lower East Wing: mathematics
Blue Wing/Lower West Wing: language arts
These wings and their subjects were initially set in stone with no variation, however nowadays there is some variation in subjects throughout the wings.
Horton High School is equipped with a gymnasium, fitness studio, daycare, foods lab, textiles lab, various labs for technology courses, six full computer labs, three chemistry labs, performance centre seating approximately 500 people, and a fine arts section which includes a large music room with five practice rooms, a music executive office, a music library/deep storage space, and a large drama room.
Students
International Baccalaureate
Horton High School has been an International Baccalaureate World School since 2012.[3] Their IB Coordinator is Jason Fuller.
In 2023, the school's drama club performed a play called Once Upon A Shakespearean Time, which was an original combination of scenes from three different Shakespeare plays: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The drama club has plans to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in full in 2025.
Throughout the past few years, the school's music department has gone through many changes and expansions, thanks to the hiring of a new music director, Lyndsey "Mitch" Mitchell. Hired in 2021, Mitchell has essentially revived the music department from its stagnant state and established a student music executive and has started to run musical performances every year.
Girl Division 2 won NSSAF provincial championship in 2014-2015[citation needed]
Basketball
Horton's boys' basketball team was nearly unbeatable for two years. In 2008 the Horton Griffins went 41–0, capturing their 2nd consecutive provincial title. In December 2008, Horton broke the Canadian national record with their 73rd straight win. Horton has appeared in five of the last seven provincial championships.
Horton boys and girls basketball won 2015-16 provincial Division 1 championship.
Soccer
The JV girls soccer team has won five provincial championships in a row from the years 2017-2021.
