Rolling Meadows High School
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| Established | 1971 |
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| Type | Public secondary |
| Principal | Dr. Charles Johns |
| Students | 1,935 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Location | 2901 Central Rd. Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colors | Purple, Gold, White, and Black (adopted) |
| Mascot | Mustangs |
| Newspaper | 'The Pacer' |
| Website | rmhs.d214.org |
Rolling Meadows High School, or RMHS, is a public four-year high school located in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Township High School District 214. It is part of the second largest school district in Illinois, under Chicago. The other 5 schools include Buffalo Grove High School, Elk Grove High School, John Hersey High School, Prospect High School, and Wheeling High School
Rolling Meadows High School first opened for the 1971-1972 school year.
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[edit] Academics
[edit] Activities and athletics
The school newspaper, The Pacer, is a member of the High School National Ad Network. The Pacer was nominated for a national award, The Pacemaker, and received a runner-up mentioning in 2007.
Rolling Meadows competes in the Mid-Suburban League East Conference and Illinois High School Association. Its mascot is the mustang.
The WildStang Robotics team from Rolling Meadows and Wheeling High Schools, partnered with Motorola, won the 2006 Championship Chairman's Award at the FIRST Championship Event in Atlanta, Georgia. WildStang has also won the FIRST Championship Event in 2003 with team 469 from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and team 65 from Pontiac, Michigan. WildStang's mentor Dan Green of Motorola won the 2007 Championship Woodie Flowers Award, the greatest honor for a mentor to receive. The WildStang FTC (VEX) team MiniStang won the 2007 Illinois Competition in December.
The school has a very active music department, with its marching band, the Marching Mustangs, participating in several competitions.
Rolling Meadows High School is also host to the state's largest[citation needed] jazz festival, Jazz in the Meadows. Area high school jazz bands from all over the Mid-West come to compete. The event finishes with a concert from a notable artist(s).
Rolling Meadows High School's Student Congress team has had members that have won Illinois High School Association state championships in 2005 (Joseph Dunn) and 2006 (Mac LeBuhn), as well as the Junior State of America's 2007 Midwest Region Statesmen of the year (Matt Vasilogambros). During the 2006-2007 season, the Student Congress team placed all five tournaments, won 1st place (small school division) three tournaments, once earning enough points to place 3rd place large school division.
The Yearling, the school's yearbook, is a recurring winner of the Golden Eagle award consisting of outstanding writing and photography. All of the writing in the book is by student staff members and students also pride themselves on taking their own pictures for the book.
In the year 2007 the Rolling Meadows High School's water polo team won their first conference championship with a conference record of 4-1 led by Senior Matt Waksmunski and Juniors Steve Gerbatch, Luke Shafer, Dan McCarthy, and Erik Vliet.
Rolling Meadows High School's varsity football team was 8-1 in the regular season of '07. They were seeded 5th spot in the Class 7A playoffs. RMHS has been honored in numerous newspapers for its outstanding achievements of the '07 year.
[edit] Miscellanea
- This school uses Block Scheduling. There are four classes per day, which alternate between a Gold Day (ex: Math, PE, English, History) and a Purple Day (ex: Info Processing, Seminar, Advanced Literature, Spanish). Each class lasts ninety minutes, with the exception of late start Thursdays, where each class is seventy-eight minutes long. The only exception is a White Day, where all classes meet. The GPA scale goes up to 5.0.
- During the first few years of RMHS, classes were grouped together in giant classrooms. Four different classes could be going on in the same room. This proved inefficient, and walls were set up to divide the classrooms.
[edit] Notable alumni
- John Henry Briggs, Marketing executive
- Tim McIlrath, Singer/Songwriter, Rise Against
- Scott McClain, baseball player
- Brian Schmack, former baseball player with Detroit Tigers
- Gary Cole, Actor
- Jay Bennett, Singer/Songwriter, formerly of Wilco
- Aaron Williams, NBA Player
- Achem
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Marching band
- Rolling Meadows High School Layout, using Google Maps
- WildStang Robotics team
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