Ranchview High School 8401 Valley Ranch Parkway East Irving

Established in 2002, Ranchview High School is the newest of our district’s high schools and serves students in the Irving, Las Colinas, Valley Ranch, and Coppell areas of our school district. After only six years, RHS is already known for providing challenging academic courses, impressive fine arts programs, and competitive athletic teams.

The Ranchview community includes 780 students and 79 professional staff with an average class size of 22 students. With such a small student-teacher ratio, individual attention is guaranteed at RHS. Because we are a small, comprehensive high school within a large suburban school district, we are able to provide opportunities for students that many other schools cannot. Students at RHS are encouraged to become involved in extracurricular clubs and activities and join our award winning performing arts groups and athletic teams. At RHS, there is a place for all students to explore their gifts and perfect their talents.

The Ranchview staff is committed to offering an instructional program that is rigorous, relevant and prepares our students to compete in a global economy. We are the only high school in Carrollton-Farmers Branch to be authorized by the International Baccalaureate Organization to offer the IB Diploma Programme, and we anticipate being among the first 100 schools in North America to be authorized to offer the Middle Years Programme as well. In tandem with Barbara Bush Middle School, we are entering a unique partnership that aligns our instruction in grades 6-12 to ensure that our graduates not only have a competitive edge when applying to college, but that they also become more reflective thinkers and effective communicators.

The high level of instructional challenge is seen in the wide array of Pre-Diploma, IB, and AP courses offered at Ranchview. These include Physics, Biology, Visual Art, Statistics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Calculus, History of the Americas, English, French, Spanish, and the unique IB Theory of Knowledge course. Additionally, partnerships with Northlake and Brookhaven Colleges, Texas Tech University, and The University of Texas allow our students to earn college credits while still enrolled in high school. College credits earned through IB/AP or dual enrollment work are not only applicable toward college degrees, but represent significant financial savings for our students. In addition to this tuition savings, our third graduating class of 150 students received over $1.2 million in scholarships. Two RHS students were also selected for National Merit commendations in our second year of eligibility because our college preparatory curriculum enabled them to earn high scores on the PSAT and SAT/ACT college entrance exams. The academic rigor of the instructional program at RHS has prepared our students to continue their academic careers at many nationally respected universities including Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, SMU, TCU, the University of Texas, and Texas A&M.

In the performing arts, students produce numerous concerts, plays, and musicals each year. Each of our performing groups includes members who are also active in highly competitive city and regional level choirs, bands, dance and theater troupes, and orchestras. We are also the home to championship athletic teams. Our varsity volleyball, softball, baseball, and boys and girls basketball, track, tennis, and golf teams represented us in the playoffs with boys basketball, golf, tennis, and boys and girls track teams earning 11-3A District Champion honors.

2007-2008 TAKS Scores	2007-2008 Demographics	2007-2008 Enrollment
Read/ELA Math Science Social Studies	White 25%	9^th 225
93% 74% 77% 94%	African American 38%	10^th 217
	Asian 21%	11^th 174
	Hispanic 16%	12^th 164

Every student will graduate from RHS prepared to pursue the post secondary education of his or her choice and with the tools needed to succeed in a global society.