Riverton High School (Utah)

Riverton High School
Home of the Silverwolves
Address
12476 S Silverwolf Way (2700 W) Riverton, Utah 84065 United States
Coordinates	40°31′30″N 111°57′35″W / 40.52500°N 111.95972°W / 40.52500; -111.95972Coordinates: 40°31′30″N 111°57′35″W / 40.52500°N 111.95972°W / 40.52500; -111.95972
Information
Type	Public high school
Established	February 28, 1999
School district	Jordan School District
Principal	Carolyn Gough
Faculty	76.24 (FTE)
Grades	10th-12th
Enrollment	2,027 as of 2013
Student to teacher ratio	26.59
Color(s)	Purple   Silver   Black
Mascot	Sylvester Silverwolf
Team name	Silverwolves
Publication	Tabula Rasa (literary magazine)
Newspaper	The Silver Scribe
Yearbook	Pause
News production	Silver Screen
Charity drive	Silver Rush
Website	rivertonhigh.org
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Riverton High School (abbreviated "Riverton" or "RHS") is a public high school with a 52-acre (210,000 m²) campus located in the city of Riverton, Utah in the southwest corner of the Salt Lake Valley. It is one of eight high schools in the Jordan School District and as of 2013 served about 2,027 students from parts of Riverton and all of nearby Bluffdale.

Riverton High School was proposed in the late 1990s as a necessary measure to relieve the overpopulation of schools in the rapidly growing southwest area of the Jordan School District. Once it was completed it would do so by taking in students from the cities of Riverton, Herriman, and Bluffdale: an area which at the time was mostly covered by the overwhelmed Bingham High School.

In 1997 the building contract for the school was awarded to Union Pointe Construction Corp. and construction began. The school was constructed according to the Jordan School District's policy of basing the design of all high schools on a single, ever-developing model, and as such is architecturally similar to many other high schools in the surrounding area. The first year of school was the year of 1999-2000, during which some of its components were still being completed.

The student population in the area has continued to increase at a fast pace, and by 2009 Riverton High School was the largest school in the state of Utah. Accordingly, in 2010 students from Herriman and parts of western Riverton began to attend the newly constructed Herriman High School, which is currently Riverton’s unofficial rival.

Silver Rush started during Riverton High’s first operating school year in 1999-2000 as a winter charity drive similar to that of other schools in the area; fundraising efforts took place entirely within the school, and a reward assembly for students was held at the end of the drive.

During the next school year the focus of the drive shifted and expanded to focus more on the charity for which the money was being raised and on fundraising in local neighborhoods in addition to the school itself. Many of the fundraising activities begun during the 2000-2001 school year have become traditions that continue as a part of the drive today, including door-to-door “odd jobs” in exchange for donations and a date auction of the Student Body Officers.