Roswell High School ( RHS ) is a public high school in Roswell, Georgia, U.S.A. that opened in 1949. It serves the entire city of Roswell west of Georgia 400 and the city of Mountain Park. It also serves small portions of Alpharetta and Milton. With a population of over of 2,436 students in the 2007–2008 school year, RHS is one of the largest schools in the Fulton County School System. It is the second oldest of Fulton County's schools in the northern portion of the county opening between Milton High School, (1921) and Chattahoochee High School (1991). Roswell is currently on its third campus which opened in 1990. The current building is the oldest in use high school building in north Fulton.
Roswell's standardized testing scores have exceeded the national and state averages and it has been named a national and Georgia school of excellence. For the 2005–2006 school year, Roswell's average SAT score was 1663 with the new SAT scoring system, which ranked Roswell third in the Fulton County School System and sixth in Metro Atlanta. Further, the school offers a highly diversified curriculum beyond the basics.
The school offers students many extracurricular activities, including a variety of clubs. Some other activities meet as elective classes such as musical groups, drama and art. These classes are supplemented by after school rehearsals, meetings and outside concerts. Students also have the option to compete in the school's many athletic programs.
Roswell is a member of the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) and Region 6-AAAAA for athletic competition. The school's mascot is the Hornets and the colors are green, black and white. The school offers 16 different sports comprising 23 varsity level teams. Seven of the Roswell Hornet teams have won state championships, totaling 19 overall. The most championships won by a single team is seven, accomplished by the girls gymnastics program.
History
Roswell High School first opened in 1949 and is the second oldest high school in Fulton County north of the Chattahoochee River. Like the city of Roswell, the school bares the name of Roswell King. King founded the cotton mill that would eventually be the economic backbone of Roswell for much of its early history. The immediate predecessor to Roswell High School was the Roswell Public School on Mimosa Boulevard, which housed grades 1–10 and opened in the 1892 after the Georgia General Assembly passed Act No. 51 on December 20, 1892, which allowed the city to elect a school board and levy taxes for support of the school. Students from outside the city limits were required to pay tuition. In 1896, the city council and mayor were authorized by the state to issue $5,000 in bonds to build a new school building.
In 1914, the existing school was torn down and two new structures were built for the school. Since schools were segregated at that time, a two-story brick building was constructed on Mimosa Boulevard to house the white students in grades 1 through 10, and a one-room wooden building for the black students was built on Pleasant Hill Avenue for grades 1 through 7. The Pleasant Hill facility also served as a meeting place for a local lodge and the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church until the church built its own facility across the street in 1922. Grade 11 was added in the 1920s to the Mimosa Boulevard school. Black students that progressed past grade 7 could then attend Washington High School in Atlanta.
During the Great Depression, the city of Roswell was annexed into Fulton County from Cobb County as part of its 1932 combination with Milton County and Campbell County. Roswell students in grades ten and eleven were then sent to Milton High School in Alpharetta or North Fulton High School in Atlanta to finish their secondary education (which ended upon completion of grade 11). In 1949, the Mimosa Boulevard building was demolished, and a new school was built on the existing site to allow the 10th and 11th grades to return to Roswell as the inaugural Roswell High School. G.W. Adams was the first principal and oversaw the addition of more rooms to the school over the next few years. During this growth, the Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist churches also located on Mimosa Boulevard were used to house auxiliary classrooms. Also in 1949, the high school began participating in athletics with a varsity basketball team and other senior high school extracurricular activities. In 1950, Roswell High School added grade 12 as part of state-wide standard for high schools and played its first varsity football season. The first graduating class graduated in the spring of 1951.
Construction began nearby on Alpharetta Highway near the present day Roswell City Hall on a new high school campus. That facility opened in the fall of 1954 and allowed the high school (grades 8–12) to physically separate from the elementary school (grades 1–7). Roswell High's second campus was designed by the architecture firm Stevens & Wilkinson, which innovated school designs and utilized a "finger plan" to improve functionality of the school. It had a capacity of 400 students and had facilities for industrial arts, shop, music halls, science labs, art room, indoor gymnasium, athletic fields, football stadium and a track. The primary school remained in the Mimosa Boulevard building as Roswell Elementary. As of 2007, the brick elementary building is part of an expanded structure still owned by the Fulton County School System, and it houses the Crossroads Second Chance North Alternative School and the Teaching Museum North. Roswell High remained in the Alpharetta Highway campus until the fall of 1990 when the current campus on King Road was opened.
Campus
The current campus is the third that Roswell High School has occupied and opened in the fall of 1990 on King Road, just off of Highway 92, with an enrollment of nearly 2,000 students. As of 2007, it is the oldest high school building in North Fulton. The new campus was expanded with a football stadium and softball field added in 1994 and an auditorium in 1995, paid for by the RHS Foundation. The campus includes: science, computer, video, and cosmetology labs; baseball and softball fields, a stadium for football and soccer, a lacrosse field, an additional practice field, a dome style gymnasium, a cross country trail, and lighted tennis courts for athletics. In 2008 the Roswell gymnasium was named one of the top high school gyms in the nation. Cited was the domed rotunda, the hanging four sided scoreboard, and locker room facilities.
On February 2, 2007, Roswell High had a groundbreaking ceremony for an expansion project. The 23,851-square-foot (2,215.8 m 2 ) expansion will include 10 new classrooms including science labs and a new band room. Once completed the school will have a 1,900 student capacity, and will eliminate the need for several of the portable classrooms. Construction officially began on February 5, 2007. The addition is being paid for by a one cent Special-purpose local-option sales tax (SPLOST). Additional improvements to RHS for additional safety and security features, technology and curriculum equipment enhancements, and athletic facilities upgrades will also be implemented as part of third SPLOST approved by Fulton County voters on March 20, 2007.
Students and faculty
In the 2007–2008 school year, Roswell's enrollment was 2,428. In that year, the student population was 68% white, 15% African American, 12% Hispanic, and 5% Asian. Roswell has a relatively large immigrant population, including students from Russia and other former Soviet republics, Korea, and African nations. According to 2007 statistics, 92 percent of the school's graduates go on to colleges and universities across the United States. The school's current student enrollment is 2,436. As of 2007, Roswell's faculty had 246 full time teachers, with 85% holding an advanced degree.
Roswell High School is the highest-level school in Fulton County's Roswell Cluster. The schools that feed into Roswell include Hembree Springs, Mimosa, Mountain Park, Roswell North, and Sweet Apple Elementary Schools. The middle schools that feed into Roswell are Crabapple Middle School and Elkins Pointe Middle School. Also included in the Roswell Cluster is the Crossroads Second Chance North Alternative School which serves northern Fulton County students in grades six through twelve.
Academics
Roswell High School was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 1997–1998 by the United States Department of Education. It was also designated a Georgia School of Excellence in 1996. 26 Advanced Placement Program (AP) Classes are offered and SAT as well as ACT scores regularly exceed the national and state average. RHS is a part of the Fulton County School System and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Georgia Department of Education.
For the 2005–2006 school year, Roswell's average SAT score was 1663 with the new SAT scoring system, which ranked Roswell third in the Fulton County School System and sixth in Metro Atlanta. The Georgia state average was 1477 while the National average was 1518
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