Pine-Richland High School
Location
700 Warrendale Rd., Gibsonia, PA 15044-6040 Coordinates: 40°39′34″N 80°01′01″W / 40.659338°N 80.017017°W / 40.659338; -80.017017
Information
Type	Public
School district	Pine-Richland School District
Principal	Two interim principals
Grades	K-12
Enrollment	1,466 (2009-2010)
Color(s)	Green,White
Athletics conference	WPIAL section AAAA
Mascot	Ram
Information	(724) 625-4444
Website	PRHS

Pine-Richland High School is a high school located in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania.

Contents 1 Sports 2 Pine Richland Arts 3 Academics 4 Notable alumni 5 References

[edit] Sports

The Pine-Richland High School's mascot is the Ram. The Pine-Richland sports teams include boys and girls basketball, volleyball, baseball, tennis, crew, golf, lacrosse, fencing, wrestling, track, swimming/diving, cross country, football, soccer, 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.

[edit] 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, although this is easily debatable.

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 also 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 the more musically talented PR 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-school. In the past 5 years, they have won Best Musical each year, as well as taking away between 6-10 other awards each year, including Best Ensemble, Best Set Design, Best Costumes, Best Male Lead, etc...

[edit] Academics

Pine-Richland Ranks as one of top US Public High Schools "Newsweek Magazine" ranks PRHS 835 out of the 1,500 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.Template:Date="Newsweek" - June 2008 The school has a graduation rate between 93-98%, depending on the graduating class. A large number of students go on to ivy league or equally high caliber schools each year.

[edit] Notable alumni

• Stephen Frick - American astronaut
• Neil Walker - Third basemen for the Pittsburgh Pirates

[edit] References

• http://www.pittsburghclo.org
• http://www.greatschools.net/school/parentReviews.page?id=178&state=PA
• http://www.pinerichland.org/mealplussecondary.htm
• https://www.sodexhoeducation.com/segment_0200/district_5709/ENM/Entry1/view_pdf.asp?
• http://www.prgsoccer.org/home.html