At Mount View High School there has been a long-held commitment to 'delivering excellence, innovation and success' with a dual focus on academic and social-emotional learning. Students are encouraged and supported to achieve their personal best and to become confident, creative young people who are well-equipped to embrace the challenges and demands of contemporary society and to build our community for both the present and the future.

Since 2014 the key message to staff, students and our community has been "Step Up, Step Forward and Step Ahead" and that we can strive, personally and professionally, for "better than OK." These sentiments were expressed by the students most powerfully when they rewrote our school song, now entitled "Stand Up, Step Forward, Move Ahead." Moving into the current three year strategic plan our school's vision statement was refined following consultation with the wider school community. It now states: "Mount View HS is dedicated to developing an innovative, flexible learning culture that is courageous and aspirational, with opportunities for all to thrive." The extent to which we are realising this vision statement is reviewed annually with our executive staff.

Since 2017, our journey in Positive Education has resulted in our establishment as a 'Five Ways to Wellbeing' School and has enabled us to build and foster community partnerships.