River Ridge High School (Lacey, Washington)
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350 River Ridge Dr. SE Lacey, Washington 98513 United States |
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| Coordinates | 47°03′23″N 122°45′05″W / 47.056411°N 122.751431°WCoordinates: 47°03′23″N 122°45′05″W / 47.056411°N 122.751431°W |
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| Type | Public secondary |
| Motto | Learning to Live, Living to Learn, Learning to Soar |
| Established | 1993 |
| Principal | Mrs. Malloy |
| Staff | 69 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Campus | suburban |
| Color(s) |
Navy blue, Silver, and White |
| Mascot | The Hawk |
| Newspaper | The Hawkeye |
| Yearbook | Epic (1993-2004) The Raptor (since 2005) |
| Feeder schools |
Nisqually Middle School Chinook Middle School |
| CEEB Code | 480574 |
| Website | Homepage |
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River Ridge High School (RRHS), commonly referred to as Ridge, is an American high school located in Lacey, Washington, United States and is one of three comprehensive high schools of the North Thurston Public Schools. It was established in 1993 and named for its proximity to the geographical ridge of the Nisqually River valley. It earned its school nickname due to its location within the Hawk's Prairie area of Thurston County off Exit 111 of Interstate 5, serving students living in Mushroom Corner and Tanglewilde-Thompson Place.
River Ridge and its feeder school, Nisqually Middle School, serves many students with parents who are on active duty or have retired from the military due to its proximity to Joint Base Lewis-McChord. River Ridge was constructed as a community solution to handle the over-flowing capacities of neighboring Timberline and North Thurston High Schools in the late 1980s-early 1990s, producing a more diverse student body population than the other two high schools in the district.
River Ridge is a high school established in the Lacey area and was the first in the school district to carry on a unique house system of organizing classrooms, dubbed "school within a school": students were split into the four houses (Kalama(A), Olympic(B), Cascade(C), and Durazno(D)) in which each house has its own office and administrative team. Other buildings served to house electives, athletics, library media center, and main administrative offices. The house system was discontinued in 2011, and house buildings currently group classrooms by academic discipline.There is also another complex near D house called Sommer hall it currently has all of the alternate language classes in it and one science class.
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