| Rio Linda High School | |
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6309 Dry Creek Road 95673 United States | |
| Coordinates | 38°40′56″N 121°26′19″W / 38.682243°N 121.438515°W |
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| Type | Public 4-year |
| Motto | Excellence is a Habit |
| Established | 1962 |
| School district | Twin Rivers Unified School District |
| Principal | Diedre Barlow |
| Teaching staff | 78.82 (FTE) [2] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,614 (2017-18) [2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 20.48 [2] |
| Color(s) | Black and Gold |
| Nickname | Knights [1] |
| Newspaper | Knight Times |
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Rio Linda High School is a high school located in Rio Linda, Sacramento, California, United States. It has an enrollment of 2,035 students. It is part of the Twin Rivers Unified School District, and was formerly part of the Grant Unified School District.
Rio Linda High School opened in 1962 and has been one of the primary high schools for students in the Rio Linda/Elverta and Natomas Communities. It offers a wide range of extracurricular activities and academic opportunities.
Demographics
2,035 students attend Rio Linda High School. 41% of them are White, 22% are Hispanic, 13% are Asian, and 8% are African-American and 4% are Middle Eastern/ Indian. 93% of the students receive a reduced price/free lunch and 19% of the student body (386 students) are English language learners. The 3 most commonly spoken languages spoken by English language learners at this school are Spanish (205 students), Hmong (86 students), and Russian (40 students) Punjabi/ Urdu/ Arabic (40 students)
Rankings
In 2012, after evaluating 21,776 high schools across the nation, U.S. News & World Report awarded Rio Linda High School a silver medal. Rio Linda was ranked 1,605th nationally (top 8%) and 337th within the state of California (top 14%) [3]
Notable alumni
- Jay Mosley, member of the Missouri House of Representatives [4]
- Darren Oliver, Major League Baseball player [5]
- Sheila Hudson, Olympian, USATF Board of Director & Hall of Fame, Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles Sr Athletics Executive, USTFCCCA Hall of Fame
- Justin E. H. Smith, philosopher and author
Kay Ivey, the current governor of Alabama, taught at the school in the 1960s [6]
References
- ^ "Rio Linda High School". Retrieved 28 April 2023.
- ^ a b c "Rio Linda High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
- ^ "U.S. News & World Report".
- ^ "Representative Jay Mosley". house.mo.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
- ^ Yamamoto, Ryan (October 26, 2010). "Rio Linda High baseball star Darren Oliver to play in World Series". KXTV. Archived from the original on April 26, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
- ^ "The pride of Camden: Kay Ivey's path to the governor's office".
External links
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