Rome High School (RHS) is a public high school that opened in 1992 and is located in

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, United States. It is a part of Rome City School District.

About

Rome High offers Advanced Placement (AP), Dual Enrollment, and Career Technical and Agricultural Educations (CTAE) classes. The school has an average ACT score of 24, and an average SAT score of 1130. Rome High School receives

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funding. In 2020–2021, the total school minority enrollment is 74%; and 66% of students at the school are economically disadvantaged. The Rome High Marching Band is known as the, "Sound of the Seven Hills." In 2023, Thomas "Tab" Brown was named the director of bands for the school. The Rome High Chorus has four different chorus groups, including the advanced chorale, advanced women’s chorus, men’s chorus, and beginning women’s chorus. The Rome High Theatre Department has produced varied stage productions, including ''Once Upon a Mattress'' (2013), ''Beauty and the Beast'' (2015), and ''Into The Woods'' (2023).

Pre-history

The former campus for Cherokee Baptist Female College, now Shorter College, was used for Rome High School, which opened on September 4, 1911. In 1980, that campus building was demolished, after a history of many fires. In 1939, due to an increase in attendance at Rome High School, it was divided into two schools separated by gender.Stacy McCain
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'', November 5, 1991. The all-girls high school was named Girls' High School; and the all-boys high school was named Boys' High School. The mixed-sex educational system returned to the city by 1950. In 1958, two new schools were formed East Rome High School, and West Rome High School. These schools were all segregated and served the White students, until desegregation efforts in 1966. The Main High School, which opened in 1884 and closed in 1969, was the segregated school that served Black students in the Rome community. The new Rome High School opened in 1992, and it replaced East Rome High School, and

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History

The construction started at the current site at 1000 Veteran's Memorial Highway, shared with the Rome Middle School, in the summer of 1990. The new campus for Rome High School opened in 1992. As part of the National Schools Recognition Program sponsored by the

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in an effort to recognize distinguished public schools, the Georgia Department of Education selected this school as a "school of excellence" in 1996. The school was subsequently commended by the

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in recognition for being selected as the 1996 Georgia High School of Excellence from the 7th Congressional District. The school has been named "Best High School in America" three times by ''U.S. News & World Report'' (2008, 2009, 2012). The 2020–2021 ranking by U.S. News & World Report placed Rome High 98 of the 476 high schools in Georgia and 4,306 out of 17,245 high schools nationally. The school and its students won two Georgia Scholastic Press Awards in 2007, and had two first place prize winners in the 2007 Georgia Humanities Council National History Day state contest.

Athletics

Rome High sponsors 13 athletic teams on campus, with boys and girls participating in varsity and junior varsity teams. Rome's teams are known as the Wolves, a reference to the she-wolf's role in the myth of the founding of Rome.

Football

The Rome High Wolves football team secured two state titles in 2016 and 2017. On December 9, 2016, Rome High won the

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5A Football Championship at the

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Barron Stadium Barron Stadium is a 6,500-seat football field and track & field stadium in Rome, Georgia. It is home to the Shorter University Hawks and Rome High School Wolves football teams. The facility hosted the NAIA Football National Championship from ...

Notable alumni

* Adam Anderson, former

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References

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