Rio Linda High School

Rio Linda High School is a high school located in Rio Linda, Sacramento, California, United States. It has an enrollment of 2,035 students. It is part of the Twin Rivers Unified School District, and was formerly part of the Grant Unified School District.

Rio Linda High School
Location
6309 Dry Creek Road Rio Linda, California 95673 United States
Coordinates	38.682243°N 121.438515°W / 38.682243; -121.438515
Information
Type	Public 4-year
Motto	Excellence is a Habit
Established	1962
School district	Twin Rivers Unified School District
Principal	Diedre Barlow
Teaching staff	77.94 (FTE)[1]
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	1,596 (2023-2024)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	20.48[1]
Color(s)	Black and gold
Nickname	Knights[2]
Newspaper	Knight Times
Website	rlhs.twinriversusd.org

Rio Linda High School opened in 1962 and has been one of the primary high schools for students in the Rio Linda/Elverta and Natomas Communities. It offers a wide range of extracurricular activities and academic opportunities.

Demographics

2,035 students attend Rio Linda High School. 41% of them are White, 22% are Hispanic, 13% are Asian, 8% are African-American, and 4% are Middle Eastern/Indian. 93% of the students receive a reduced price/free lunch and 19% of the student body (386 students) are English language learners. The 4 most commonly spoken languages spoken by English language learners at this school are Spanish (205 students), Hmong (86 students), Russian (40 students), and Punjabi/Urdu/Arabic (40 students).

Rankings

In 2012, after evaluating 21,776 high schools across the nation, U.S. News & World Report awarded Rio Linda High School a silver medal. Rio Linda was ranked 1,605th nationally (top 8%) and 337th within the state of California (top 14%)^[3]

Notable alumni

• Jay Mosley, member of the Missouri House of Representatives^[4]
• Darren Oliver, Major League Baseball player^[5]
• Sheila Hudson, Olympian, USATF Board of Director & Hall of Fame, Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles Sr Athletics Executive, USTFCCCA Hall of Fame
• Justin E. H. Smith, philosopher and author
• Kay Ivey, the current governor of Alabama, taught at the school in the 1960s^[6]
• Cameron Skattebo, running back for the New York Giants