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Richardson High School
Richardson High School
	Richardson High School in 2021
Address
	1250 West Belt Line Road; Richardson, Dallas County, Texas 75080; United States
Coordinates	32°57′06″N 96°45′44″W / 32.9516°N 96.76232°W
Information
Type	High school/secondary school
Motto	Scientia Cum Prudentia
Established	1890 (1963 - current facility)
School district	Richardson Independent School District
Principal	Chris Choat
Teaching staff	206.11 (FTE)
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	2,773 (2022–2023)
Student to teacher ratio	13.45
Color(s)	Purple and gold
Mascot	Eagle
Nickname	RHS
Publication	The Talon
Feeder schools	Westwood Junior High School Richardson West Junior High School
Magnet Programs	Law, culinary arts, visual arts, photography/photo media arts, theater, tech theater, communications, robotics, science, and computer science
Website	Richardson High School Website

Richardson High School (RHS) is a magnet high school in Richardson, Texas, United States with approximately 2,770 students and a student/teacher ratio of approximately 15:1 in the 2018–2019 school year.^[3] It is the oldest high school in the Richardson Independent School District (RISD).

Richardson High School is the flagship high school of the Richardson Independent School District (RISD).^[4] The school has many magnet programs, such as culinary arts,^[5] theater, visual arts, tech theater, communications,^[4] robotics, law, science, and computer science. The school also has award-winning mock trial, debate, and computer science teams.^[4]

History

The school, which opened shortly after the first public school in the city, was burned down by Ross Inman in 1890. The fire began in a two-room building on Old Pike Road, a street that is now part of Greenville Avenue. A rural school with fewer than 100 students up to 1950, the school opened its present facility in 1961. During the period of the late 1950s, RHS shared facilities with Westwood Junior High School on Abrams Road. Bill Passmore was principal during this transition into the new facility on Belt Line Road.

Jeremy Wade Delle suicide

On January 8, 1991, Jeremy Wade Delle, a 15-year-old^[6] sophomore, fatally shot himself with a .357 Magnum in front of his second-period English class.^[7] The incident inspired the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy".^[8]

Brent Archie scandal

On July 30, 2008, teacher and coach Brent Archie was arrested on charges of having relationships with three female students. Archie was a football and wrestling coach, and also taught Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) and world history. This was the first incident of its kind in RISD history.^[9]^[10]

Athletics

Richardson's sports mascot is the Eagle; students, teachers, and alumni are referred to as Eagles; and the team shares Eagle-Mustang Stadium (capacity 12,000) with J. J. Pearce High School.

The school was the University Interscholastic League State Champions for Men's & Woman's Soccer in 1985.^[11]^[12]

Notable accomplishments

The school was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in the 1983–84 school year.^[13]

In August 2006, Richardson High School was named one of three "best practices" high schools in the state of Texas.^[14] The award granted by the National Council of Educational Accountability and the Just 4 Kids Foundation is based upon staff development, staff retention, standardized test scores and support programs for students.

In May 2007, the RISD was awarded the "Excellence in Education Award for Large School District in Texas" by the HEB Foundation.^[15] Richardson High School and Richardson West Junior High played instrumental roles in the selection process and hosted the site visit committee in March 2007. In addition to the award, the RISD received a check for $100,000.

In the 2012 U.S. News & World Report rankings of the Best Schools in America, Richardson High School ranked number 711 out of 21,766 public high schools, putting it in the top 3.5% of all public high schools in the United States. RHS was also rated the 65th best in the state of Texas.^[16]

In 2015, 2016, and 2017, Richardson High School was one of the few hundred schools in the state of Texas, and the only high school in RISD to earn all 7 distinctions in the STAAR state assessment.^[17]

Notable alumni

William Basinski, Composer, electronic/ambient musician
Evan Bernstein, Israeli Olympic wrestler
Jarek Broussard, American football running back (transferred to Bishop Lynch High School)
Gregg Costa, judge in United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Tim Cowlishaw, sportswriter, TV personality
Catherine Crier, news and Television personality
Mark Dodd, soccer player
Brandon Douglas, American actor
Jeff Dunham, ventriloquist
Stephanie Dunnam, actress
Bill Engvall, comedian and actor.
David Gordon Green, film writer-director
Norma Hunt, minority owner of the Kansas City Chiefs
Eddie Jackson, chef and football player
Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas
Jay Johnson, ventriloquist and actor
Caleb Landry Jones, actor
Gordon Keith, radio personality
Jake McDorman, actor
Adam Saunders, American filmmaker
Carla Overbeck, soccer player and coach
Jeff Paine, NFL player
Anne Rice, Vampire series author
John Maddox Roberts, author
Bill Scanlon, tennis player
Cason Wallace, professional basketball player
Keaton Wallace, professional basketball player
Barry Watson, actor

Media

In 2009, the school's student news team started a public, student-written magazine known as The Talon.

KRET-TV

In 1960 the Richardson Independent School District established KRET, the first TV station in the nation to be owned by a school district.^[18] The studio was located at Richardson High from 1963–1970. The studio was previously located at Richardson Junior High School (1960–1963). The station was converted on August 31, 1970, into a closed-circuit network named "TAGER".