Click on the story above for a film created by senior RHS student Sam Canney about the Vermont Ecology Year-End-Studies course at Rutland High School. The class is taught by Tim Gilbert and Taborri Bruhl. Read more »

Earlier this month, a state funded group known as Turn-Off Texting visited Rutland High, bringing with them their message of text-free driving and an obstacle course meant to educate the students to that same end.

Several of the individuals roamed amongst the crowd of on looking teens, reminding them of the dangers of distracted driving, while others coordinated the driving course or manned tables where students were signing pledges not to text and drive. These pledges can now be found plastered to the wall facing our school’s back entrance. Read more »

The Rutland High School’s Encore Theater is a highly talented group of devoted students and staff that works together to create inspiring, funny, and thought provoking dramas. In addition to impressive acting, members of Encore also design their own custom sets, as well as running lighting and music. Read more »

Most high school bands can’t say they’ve had a professional write a four-part suite for them. Rutland High’s band is an exception, all thanks to their own effort, the willingness of one Dr. Gene Milford, and Director Brent Barnett. Read more »

On the Wednesday before April Break, Public Service Commissioner David O’Brien was a guest speaker in Ms. Kravitz’s Civics and Economics class. Commissioner O’Brien explained the role of the Public Service Department within the Vermont government and as an advocate for Vermonters. Students asked many thoughtful questions about the closing of Vermont Yankee, and alternative [...] Read more »

The Music Boosters Annual Meeting will take place on Thursday, April 8 at 7:00 p.m. in the RHS Band Room. Topics will include: All State Music Festival Music Department Banquet Upcoming Events Election of Officers Read more »

Rutland High School’s chapter of Tri-M Music Honor Society hosted an Open Mic Night on April 3 to raise funds for victims of the Haiti earthquake. The event was a huge success as Tri-M raised over $900 . Congratulations!

All proceeds will be sent to Oxfam’s Haiti relief effort to provide clean water to victims of the earthquake. Read more »

It’s in Mr. Clay’s Intro to Computer Science that some really progressive things are taking place. Atypical of most high school courses, students in his class are required to play games. But that isn’t all. First, they have to make them. Read more »

The Physical Education department at Rutland High recently purchased some thirty heart-rate monitors to use in their wide array of personal fitness courses. These high quality monitors were purchased with a $9000 federal grant the department received earlier this year. Ours was one of three lucky schools in the state to receive the grant. Read more »

Mrs. Filskov, now in the second semester of her first year at RHS, has been a teaching French in Vermont high schools the past five years, but she started her career headed in a very different direction “I worked in business,” she tells me. “I spent several years specializing in Luxury Goods as an Equity Sales Assistant on Wall Street.”

Making the leap from equity sales assistant to high school French teacher was no small feat, yet she describes her decision to change careers as a simple, serendipitous moment of spontaneous realization. “This may sound like a cliché but…I just woke up one morning and suddenly knew I wanted to be a teacher.” Read more »