Richland High School (Washington)
| Richland High School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| 930 Long Ave Richland, WA 99352 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1910 |
| School district | Richland School District |
| Principal | Mr. Tim Praino |
| Enrollment | +2000 |
| Color(s) |
Green Gold |
| Information | (509) 967-6535 |
| Website | www.richlandbombers.us |
Coordinates: 46°16′43″N 119°17′17″W / 46.27861°N 119.28806°W
Richland High School is located in Richland, Washington, in the south-eastern part of the state. It was founded as Columbia High School in 1910 to serve the educational needs of the small town of Richland. The building was replaced with a much larger structure by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1944 as part of the Manhattan Project. The campus is located at 930 Long Ave.
The facilities were extensively renovated ca 1964. The facilities have also been remodeled in stages between 1995 and 2006. Until the founding of Hanford High School in 1972, Richland High served as the only high school in the entire city. The school is part of the Richland School District.
The school was named Columbia High School, or, as the students called it, Col Hi (pronounced 'cole high'), until the early 1980s. The official name was then changed to Richland High School . Popular sentiment at the time was to preserve the association between the name of the city and the high school basketball and football teams due to other schools in Washington State having the same or very similar names to Columbia High School. Prior to planning and construction of Hanford School in 1972, the initials "RHS" were strongly identified with Columbia High School. Cheers chanted at athletic competitions referred to "RHS", and the letters "RHS" were prominently displayed above the entrance to the school's gymnasium. Some say that the name was changed so that the smaller high-school component of the Hanford K-12 complex then under construction would not claim to be "Richland High School". Regardless, there was very strong feeling about the Col Hi basketball team which fueled some of the popular opposition to the bond issue which paid for construction of Hanford School through the proceeds of Col cat house. This opposition was most intense in the North end of town whose students would be enrolled in the new school and not at Col Hi. Some of the students who at the time voted against the change claim that the name was changed to avoid confusion with the nearby, and much smaller, Columbia High School in Burbank, Washington. Given the fact that Col Hi had been known as Columbia High School for a long time and played in a different division than the Burbank school, they believed that there was little reason to believe this argument and thus voted against the change. Many alumni from the era still refer to the school as Col Hi.
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