Rio Linda High School
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%)
Notable alumni
- Jay Mosley, member of the Missouri House of Representatives
- Darren Oliver, Major League Baseball player
- 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
References
- ^ "Rio Linda High School". Retrieved 28 April 2023.
- ^ "Rio Linda High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
- ^ "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".