Pine-Richland High School
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Pine-Richland High School is a high school
located in Gibsonia
, Pennsylvania
. It is the only high school in the Pine-Richland School District
and is located in Pine Township, Pennsylvania
.
The current building was opened in 1993, with two gym
nasiums and a pool, along with nearly 80 classrooms and office space, and a large auditorium. An addition opened in 2000 with modifications to the original building, plus nearly 30 more classrooms and the new district office. Another addition is in the planning stages and construction is expected to begin in 2010 with an expected completion date of August 2012.
, baseball
, tennis
, crew
, golf
, lacrosse
, fencing
, wrestling
, track
, swimming/diving, cross country
, football
, soccer, field hockey, and gymnastics
.
The Rams baseball, girls soccer, hockey, gymnastics, and volleyball teams were all state champions in the 2005-2006 school year. There were five state championship teams in the year 2006, which include: women's volleyball, women's soccer, baseball, men's tennis doubles, and women's gymnastics. In 2005 the girls soccer team defeated the number one ranked team in the nation to win their first PIAA state title. In 2006, the Pine-Richland wrestling team were section champions.
In 2010, the Rams baseball team made the WPIAL class AAAA Championship behind the pitching of student Stephen Laylock. Laylock pitched a no-hitter in the 2009 North Dakota class A State Championship for Dickinson High.
The band course contains both a fall/winter marching band section and a later year ensemble experience. The Pine-Richland Rams Marching Band has a yearly repertoire consisting of an "opener," a tuba feature, a band dance (during which the drumline is featured), a colorguard feature, a dance team feature, a closer, as well as various other songs. The second part of the band course, the ensemble band, focuses on musical ability. Jazz Ensemble provides a venue where well-performing students can play jazz and blues music. Each year the school features a musical for which students must try out, including music from a selected pit orchestra.
The school also has a musical each year in the spring, which are consistently considered some of the best high-school musicals in the greater Pittsburgh area. The school competes at the Gene Kelly Awards each year, an award ceremony for local high-schools in the Greater Pittsburgh Area.
Started only in 2009, the high school started its own chapter of the International Thespian Society. Each fall, the club sponsors a fall production entirely run by students (with minimal help from adult supervisors.) Aside from the fall production, the club aims to help students explore the arts of theatre with workshops and sponsored talks.
"Newsweek Magazine" ranks PRHS 1,020 out of the top 1,020 schools in the US
"U.S. News and World Report" awarded Pine-Richland High School a 'Silver' Rating, placing PRHS in the top 604 in the nation. Students continuously out perform national standards, particularly in the sciences and math. The school has a graduation rate between 93-98%, depending on the graduating class. A number of students go on to ivy league or equally high caliber schools each year.'
Pine Richland has also added a new branch, JROTC. The branch has brought honor, pride, and commitment to those that attend it and those who don't as well.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in Gibsonia
Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
Gibsonia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Allegheny County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, north of the city of Pittsburgh. It had a population of 2,733 at the 2010 census. Its ZIP Code is 15044.-Geography:...
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
. It is the only high school in the Pine-Richland School District
Pine-Richland School District
The Pine-Richland School District is a public school district serving the northern Pittsburgh suburbs of Allegheny County. The district features three lower level elementary schools for grades K-3 , Eden Hall Upper Elementary School for grades 4-6, Pine-Richland Middle School for grades 7-8, and...
and is located in Pine Township, Pennsylvania
Pine Township, Pennsylvania
Pine Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:*Pine Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania*Pine Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania*Pine Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania...
.
History
Richland High School was opened in 1958 along Bakerstown Road in Richland Township. The former building closed in 1993 and became Richland Elementary School in 1994. The new Pine-Richland High School was opened at its current location in Pine Township in 1993. The Pine-Richland Stadium was built on the new secondary campus between the middle school and the high school in 2001.The current building was opened in 1993, with two gym
Gym
The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
nasiums and a pool, along with nearly 80 classrooms and office space, and a large auditorium. An addition opened in 2000 with modifications to the original building, plus nearly 30 more classrooms and the new district office. Another addition is in the planning stages and construction is expected to begin in 2010 with an expected completion date of August 2012.
Sports
The Pine-Richland High School's mascot is the Ram. The Pine-Richland sports teams include boys and girls basketball, volleyballVolleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, crew
Crew
A crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard...
, golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
, fencing
Fencing
Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
, wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
, track
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, swimming/diving, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, soccer, field hockey, and gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
.
The Rams baseball, girls soccer, hockey, gymnastics, and volleyball teams were all state champions in the 2005-2006 school year. There were five state championship teams in the year 2006, which include: women's volleyball, women's soccer, baseball, men's tennis doubles, and women's gymnastics. In 2005 the girls soccer team defeated the number one ranked team in the nation to win their first PIAA state title. In 2006, the Pine-Richland wrestling team were section champions.
In 2010, the Rams baseball team made the WPIAL class AAAA Championship behind the pitching of student Stephen Laylock. Laylock pitched a no-hitter in the 2009 North Dakota class A State Championship for Dickinson High.
Pine Richland Arts
Art displays and exhibitions occur year round in during the Pine Richland High School year. These displays include photography, drawings, paintings and self portraits. The Annual Pine Richland Art Show takes place at the beginning of May each year, featuring portfolios of Advanced Placement art students and Alumni. The school is considered to have an above average art/music program compared to the surrounding schools.The band course contains both a fall/winter marching band section and a later year ensemble experience. The Pine-Richland Rams Marching Band has a yearly repertoire consisting of an "opener," a tuba feature, a band dance (during which the drumline is featured), a colorguard feature, a dance team feature, a closer, as well as various other songs. The second part of the band course, the ensemble band, focuses on musical ability. Jazz Ensemble provides a venue where well-performing students can play jazz and blues music. Each year the school features a musical for which students must try out, including music from a selected pit orchestra.
The school also has a musical each year in the spring, which are consistently considered some of the best high-school musicals in the greater Pittsburgh area. The school competes at the Gene Kelly Awards each year, an award ceremony for local high-schools in the Greater Pittsburgh Area.
Started only in 2009, the high school started its own chapter of the International Thespian Society. Each fall, the club sponsors a fall production entirely run by students (with minimal help from adult supervisors.) Aside from the fall production, the club aims to help students explore the arts of theatre with workshops and sponsored talks.
Academics
Pine-Richland Ranks as one of top US Public High Schools"Newsweek Magazine" ranks PRHS 1,020 out of the top 1,020 schools in the US
"U.S. News and World Report" awarded Pine-Richland High School a 'Silver' Rating, placing PRHS in the top 604 in the nation. Students continuously out perform national standards, particularly in the sciences and math. The school has a graduation rate between 93-98%, depending on the graduating class. A number of students go on to ivy league or equally high caliber schools each year.'
Pine Richland has also added a new branch, JROTC. The branch has brought honor, pride, and commitment to those that attend it and those who don't as well.
Demographics
Pine-Richland is 94% white, with other ethnicities comprising 6% of the student population. Pine-Richland draws students from the townships of Pine and Richland.Notable alumni
- Stephen FrickStephen FrickStephen Nathaniel Frick is an American astronaut and a veteran of two space shuttle missions. Raised in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, Frick graduated from Pine-Richland High School in 1982, earned a degree in aerospace engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1986, was commissioned as a Navy...
- American astronaut - Neil Walker - Second basemen for the Pittsburgh PiratesPittsburgh PiratesThe Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...
- Jeff CalhounJeff Calhoun (choreographer)Jeff Calhoun is an American director, choreographer, producer and dancer.As a student at Richland High School, now Pine-Richland High School , Calhoun was interested in both athletics and performance, playing football and studying tap dance. He danced in the ensemble at The Kenley Players in Ohio...
-Tony Award-winning choreographer - Brandon SaadBrandon SaadBrandon Saad is an American ice hockey player who is currently playing for the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League. He was raised in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. He is American of Syrian descent...
- Hockey player drafted to the Chicago BlackhawksChicago BlackhawksThe Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...
in 2011