Richland Northeast High School

Richland Northeast High School is a public high school in Columbia, South Carolina. Richland Northeast, often abbreviated as RNE, RNH, or RNHS, was founded in 1978 to handle the excessive population of students at Spring Valley High School. Spring Valley is now Richland Northeast's largest rival in sporting events. Richland Northeast is one of five high schools in Richland County School District 2 (RSD2).

FEEDER SCHOOLS: Conder Elementary Arts Integrated Magnet School, Polo Road Elementary, Joseph Keels Elementary, Forest Lake Elementary, Windsor Elementary, Dent Middle School, E.L Wright Middle School

Awards

• Newsweek's Best 1,000 in 2007
• Creative Ticket National School of Distinction in 2006
• Palmetto Gold in 2005

Demographic

54% of students participate in a free or reduced price lunch program.

Student diversity

RNE is 66 percent black, 22 percent white, 8 percent hispanic, 2 percent asian, and 1 percent two or more races.^[1]

Mission statement

International Baccalaureate

In the Fall of 2012, Richland Northeast opened its doors as a new member of the International Baccalaureate Program, which is phasing out the Advanced Placement program. The following AP courses are offered:

Additional courses such as Spanish, French, Physics, Computer Science, and Macroeconomics have been offered in the past based on student demand.

Other academics

Apart from AP courses, Richland Northeast offers a wide variety of honors courses, such as Algebra II and Latin I-III, as well as many different college prep and career prep courses.

Magnet programs

Richland Northeast is home to four magnet programs:

• Horizon (academic)
• Convergence Media (multimedia)
• Palmetto Center for the Arts
• International Baccalaureate

Beginning in the 2015-2016 school year, iLink will merge with Convergence Media and become iMedia.^[2] A merger between Convergence Media and former program iLink was planned for the 2015-16 school year, but did not go through and resulted in the dissolution of the iLink program. Convergence Media is functioning as before.

Palmetto center for the arts

The Palmetto Center for the Arts magnet program is nationally recognized. It received the John F. Kennedy Center Creative Ticket award for outstanding achievement in arts education. It includes dance, music, theater, and visual arts. All PCA students are enrolled in the International Baccalaureate Programme. Students who wish to join must have at least a C average.^[3] Students may audition for as many programs as they want, but they can only get accepted into one.^[4]

Activities

Athletics

Model UN

• Richland Northeast's Model UN team is notable for winning first place at the National High School Model UN Conference in New York for 27 years.

Notable alumni

• Beth Bernstein, Democratic state representative, representing the 78th District of South Carolina.
• Ben Ehrlich, Professional baseball player and coach.
• Danny!, recording artist for Okayplayer Records and music producer/composer for MTV's Hype Music production library
• Joel Lourie, Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 22nd District since 2004
• Angel Holloway CEO of Palmetto Health Richland
• Leroy Miller

Coordinates: 34°03′25″N 80°56′10″W / 34.0568203°N 80.9362004°W / 34.0568203; -80.9362004

References

External links

• http://rncavaliers.com/