Pine-Richland High School

Pine-Richland High School is a large public high school located at 700 Warrendale Road, in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the only high school in the Pine-Richland School District and is located in Pine Township. In the 2018–2019 school year, the enrollment was 1,543 students.^[1]

Pine-Richland High School
700 Warrendale Road Gibsonia, Pennsylvania 15044-6040 40.659338°N 80.017017°W / 40.659338; -80.017017 United States
Information
Type	Public
Established	1993
School district	Pine-Richland School District
Principal	Frank Hernandez
Teaching staff	101.68 (FTE)[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1,432 (2023–2024)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	14.08[1]
Color(s)	Green and white
Athletics conference	WPIAL section 6A
Mascot	Rams
Information	[phone]
Website	PRHS

History

Richland High School was opened in September 1956, which allowed the students who transferred from other schools to spend the final two years of their public education at PRHS, along Bakerstown-Warrendale Road in Richland Township. The first class graduated in June, 1958. The former building closed in 1993 and became Richland Elementary School in 1994. The new high school became Pine-Richland High School, and was opened at its current location in Pine Township in 1993.

The Pine-Richland Stadium was built on the new secondary campus between the middle school and the high school in 2001.

The current building was opened in 1993, with one gymnasium, a pool, nearly 80 classrooms, office space, and a large auditorium. An addition opened in 2000 with modifications to the original building, plus nearly 30 more classrooms, a new gymnasium, and the new district office. Another addition to the school was completed in October 2012, adding a new STEAM wing, graphic design and art rooms along with engineering rooms where students may elect to take classes on such topics. .

Extracurriculars

The Pine-Richland School District offers a wide variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program.

Pine Richland offers a Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program that stresses honor and commitment, which mostly enforces rules of the armed forces, but does not encourage military enrollment.

Arts

The Annual Pine Richland Art Show takes place at the beginning of May, showing portfolios of Advanced Placement art students and alumni.

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 featured), a colorguard feature, a dance team feature, a closer, and various other songs. The second part of the band course, the ensemble band, focuses on musical ability. Jazz Ensemble provides a venue where well-performing 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 competes at the Gene Kelly Awards each year, an award ceremony for local high schools in the greater Pittsburgh area.

The school has a chapter of the International Thespian Society. Each fall, the club sponsors a fall production.

Pine-Richland has a video production program that is offered to all grades.

Sports

The Pine-Richland High School's mascot is the Ram. 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 2006: girls volleyball, girls soccer, baseball, boys tennis doubles, and 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's competition cheerleading team was 3rd in the nation in the 2012–2013 school year. In November 2014, the football team won the AAAA WPIAL Championship against defending champion Pittsburgh Central Catholic.

Varsity

Boys Baseball – AAAAA Basketball – AAAAA Cross country – AAA Football – AAAAA Golf – AAAA Ice hockey – AAA Lacrosse – AAAA Soccer – AAA Swimming and diving – AAA Tennis – AAA Track and field – AAA Volleyball – AAA Wrestling – AAA

Girls Basketball – AAAA Cheer – AAAA Cross country – AAA Field hockey – AAA Golf – AAA Gymnastics – AAAA Lacrosse – AAAA Soccer (fall) – AAA Softball – AAAA Swimming and diving – AAA Tennis – AAA Track and field – AAA Volleyball – AAA

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Lip dub

In 2014, Pine-Richland High School saw viral success with their lip dub of American Authors' song "Best Day of my Life." It was featured on local news outlets and seen across the world on Yahoo! Sports.^[3] As of March 2025 the video had 490,923 views on YouTube.^[4]

Notable alumni

• Jeff Calhoun (1978) – Tony Award-winning choreographer
• Stephen Frick (1982) – astronaut
• Blake Lalli (2001) – Former Major league baseball player, Current Manager of the Reno Aces
• Kevin McCabe (2003) – football player
• Neil Walker (2004) – Former Major League Baseball player
• Meghan Klingenberg (2007) – midfielder for the Houston Dash and the United States women's national soccer team
• Vinny Nittoli (2010) – MLB player
• Brandon Saad (2011) – Professional ice hockey player
• Ben DiNucci (2015) - Quarterback for the Buffalo Bills
• Jackie Evancho (2018), singer
• Phil Jurkovec (2018) - Quarterback for Pittsburgh Panthers
• Mike Katic (2019) - former college football player and Barstool Sports personality