Pine-richland High School - Gibsonia, Pennsylvania/PA

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Pine-richland High School

700 Warrendale Rd, Gibsonia, PA, 15044-6175 -

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Definition of Terms

Pine-richland High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Allegheny County, PA

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1330 students

% Male / % Female

51% / 49%

Total Classroom Teachers

94 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 357 students

Grade 10 - 337 students

Grade 11 - 342 students

Grade 12 - 294 students

This School

(PA) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:14

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(PA) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	1%	2%
% Hispanic	n/a	3%
% Black	1%	14%
% White	97%	81%
% Unknown	1 %	3%

Additional Student Information

This School

(PA) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

20%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(PA) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Pine-richland Sd School District

This School's Agency

(PA) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	5	4
Number of Students Managed	4,224 students	2,220 students
District Total Revenue	$46,825,000	$24,078,000
District Expenditure	$43,093,000	$23,565,000
District Revenue / Student	$11,085	$10,846
District Expenditure / Student	$10,202	$10,615
District Graduation Rates	98%	95%

Good Morning: North (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
posted on November 19, 2009 at 11:11:19 am
Pine-Richland High School students hope to spread the magic of the season -- and raise some money -- by writing personalized letters from Santa to children.
Pine-Richland Thespian Society presenting 'Almost, Maine' (Pine Creek Journal)
posted on November 12, 2009 at 08:52:15 am
The curtain is about to rise on something wonderful at Pine-Richland High School. A new student run drama club is preparing for its debut performance; and the future of theatrical production at the school looks bright. read more »
Local Soldier Honored At Pine-Richland High School (KDKA Pittsburgh)
posted on November 10, 2009 at 06:40:16 pm
Friends, family and students came together to honor a local helicopter pilot who was killed in Afghanistan in 2008.
Heroin a problem for teens (The Pitt News)
posted on November 7, 2009 at 08:32:07 am
Christopher Cook started snorting heroin at age 17 while living in New Castle, Pa., about an hour north of Pittsburgh. Four years later, Cook was injecting heroin as often as he could without dying.
Big Spring kindergarten teacher among finalists for Pennsylvania teacher of the year (The Patriot-News)
posted on October 29, 2009 at 11:57:23 pm
A high school math instructor from the Pittsburgh suburbs who hails from a family of educators was honored Tuesday as the state’s teacher of the year.

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Pine-Richland High School is a high school located in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania.
Sports
The Pine-Richland High School's mascot is the Ram. The Pine-Richland sports teams include boys and girls basketball, volleyball, baseball, tennis, crew, golf, lacrosse, fencing, wrestling, track, swimming/diving, cross country, football, soccer, and gymnastics.
The Rams baseball, girls soccer, hockey, gymnastics, and volleyball teams were all state champions in the 2005-2006 school year. There were five state championship teams in the year 2006, which include: women's volleyball, women's soccer, baseball, men's tennis doubles, and women's gymnastics. In 2005 the girls soccer team defeated the number one ranked team in the nation to win their first PIAA state title. In 2006, the Pine-Richland wrestling team were section champions.
Pine Richland Arts
Art displays and exhibitions occur year round in during the Pine Richland High School year. These displays include photography, drawings, paintings and self portraits. The Annual Pine Richland Art Show takes place at the beginning of May each year, featuring portfolios of Advanced Placement art students and Alumni. The school is considered to have an above average art/music program compared to the surrounding schools, although this is easily debatable.
The band course contains both a fall/winter marching band section and a later year ensemble experience. The Pine-Richland Rams Marching Band has a yearly repertoire consisting of an "opener," a tuba feature, a band dance (during which the drumline is also featured), a colorguard feature, a dance team feature, a closer, as well as various other songs. The second part of the band course, the ensemble band, focuses on musical ability. Jazz Ensemble provides a venue where the more musically talented PR students can play jazz and blues music. Each year the school features a musical for which students must try out, including music from a selected pit orchestra.
The school also has a musical each year in the spring, which are consistently considered some of the best high-school musicals in the greater Pittsburgh area. The school competes at the Gene Kelly Awards each year, an award ceremony for local high-school. In the past 5 years, they have won Best Musical each year, as well as taking away between 6-10 other awards each year, including Best Ensemble, Best Set Design, Best Costumes, Best Male Lead, etc...
Academics
Pine-Richland Ranks as one of top US Public High Schools"Newsweek Magazine" ranks PRHS 835 out of the 1,500 schools in the US"U.S. News and World Report" awarded Pine-Richland High School a 'Silver' Rating, placing PRHS in the top 604 in the nation. Students continuously out perform national standards, particularly in the sciences and math.
Notable alumni
Stephen Frick - American astronaut
Neil Walker - Third basemen for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Jamel Nicholas - 2005-2006 Gatorade Thirst Quencher Pennsylvania Volleyball Player of the Year
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About This Zip Code (15044)

School Zip (15044)

(PA) State Average

Population (Approximate)

23,196 people

11,396,563 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

48%

22%

Population Average Age

39 years old

37 years old

Average Household size

2.8 persons

2.4 persons

Median Household Income

$60,898

$41,073

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

6.7 rooms

5.9 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

34 years old

51 years old

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Zipcode (15044)

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% Owning / % Renting

90% / 10%

69% / 31%

Nearby Schools:

1. Mars Area Senior High School - 943 students - 2.8 mi. away - view location
2. North Allegheny Senior High School - 1352 students - 4.4 mi. away - view location
3. A W Beattie Avts - n/a - 5.4 mi. away - view location
4. North Allegheny Ihs - 1375 students - 6.3 mi. away - view location
5. Hampton High School - 1086 students - 6.7 mi. away - view location

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In my years at Pine-Richland, I never really appreciated it. I was critical of the bubble we were surrounded by, and I let the few 'bad' teachers I h ...more

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