| Pine-Richland High School | |
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| Location | |
| 700 Warrendale Rd., Gibsonia, PA 15044-6040 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1993 |
| School district | Pine-Richland School District |
| Principal | Mr. John Pietrusinski |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,466 (2009-2010) |
| Color(s) | Green,White
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| 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. It is the only high school in the Pine-Richland School District and is located in Pine Township, Pennsylvania.
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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 gymnasiums 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.
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, 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.
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.
Pine-Richland Ranks as one of top US Public High Schools "Newsweek Magazine" ranked PRHS 841 out of the top schools in the US in 2009 and was the fourth highest ranked high school in Pennsylvania. "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.
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.