The JLSR meets on Saturday mornings for forty weeks each year, following the calendar of the Japanese academic year which begins in April and ends in March. Classes include two levels of kindergarten, six grades of elementary school, three of middle school, and three of high school. There are currently about 260 students who come from Pitt County/Greenville in the east to HighPoint in the west and also to Fayettevill in the south.

The school meets at Our lady of Lourdes (OLL) Elementary School, a parochial school at 2710 Overbrook Drive, Raleigh. The JLSR rents classrooms from OLL, maintains its library of approximately over 3,000 volumes, and stores records and resource materials at OLL, and would like to publicly express appreciation for the generous and warm hospitality which it has enjoyed at OLL School since 1993.

Classes meet from 8:40 AM to 12:20 PM and are divided into four 45 minutes sessions, separated by three 10 minute breaks. Standard class allocation is two periods to Japanese language, and two to math. The students use standard Japanese textbooks; all instruction is in Japanese.

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