Rome High School is a four-year public high school located in Rome, Georgia, United States. Its principal is Dr. Eric Holland.As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,487 students and 89.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 16.7.HistoryThis school replaced East Rome and West Rome High Schools. Construction started at the current site, shared with the Rome Middle School, in the summer of 1990.As part of the National Schools Recognition Program sponsored by the United States Department of Education in an effort to recognize distinguished public schools, the Georgia Department of Education selected this school as a "school of excellence" in 1996. The school was subsequently commended by the Georgia House of Representatives in recognition for being selected as the 1996 Georgia High School of Excellence from the 7th Congressional District. The school has been named "Best High School in America" three times by U.S. News & World Report (2008, 2009, 2012). The last ranking placed Rome High 31st of the 446 high schools in Georgia.The school and its students won two Georgia Scholastic Press Awards in 2007, and had two first place prize winners in the 2007 Georgia Humanities Council National History Day state contest.Test scoresIn 2004, before the SAT included the Writing section, the senior class at RHS scored above the Georgia and national average.
