Riverside Brookfield High School (RBHS) is a secondary school located directly between
Riverside, Illinois, and
Brookfield, Illinois,[3] which educates grades 9-12. It serves the towns of Riverside,
North Riverside, a small part of
Broadview, and parts of
LaGrange Park and
Brookfield. Its campus is adjacent to
Brookfield Zoo. The mascot of Riverside Brookfield (RB) is Rouser the
Bulldog. Riverside Brookfield Township High School District 208 passed a $58 million referendum, resulting in renovations to the school building, including a new swimming pool, athletics stadium, and classrooms. This was completed in Spring 2010. In 2015, the Board of Education used $14 million to address health/safety concerns and to build a new athletic complex.[4]
Riverside Brookfield's class of 2012 had an average composite ACT score of 23.1, 2.3 points above the state average. 95% of the senior class has graduated over the past eight years. Riverside Brookfield ranks in the Top 8% of Illinois high schools in PSAE rankings, and the Top 7% of Illinois high schools in ACT ranking. The school was ranked by the Chicago Sun-Times in 2010 as the 40th best high school in Illinois, and 9th in Illinois (194th nationally) by Newsweek in 2011.
The school offers 22 honors-level courses and 24 Advanced Placement courses, including Music Theory, Art History, Computer Science, Language and Composition, Biology, Calculus AB and BC, Microeconomics, and US Government and Politics. Riverside Brookfield ranked 5th in Illinois (239th nationally) in the 2011 Washington Post Challenge Index.
Carrie Norwood (MacDonald) (1998) was the first female mascot performer for the University of Iowa, former radio DJ for 94.7 The Zone in Chicago, and a former professional mascot performer for the Chicago Blackhawks and Chicago White Sox.[11][circular reference]