Advisory groups meet together throughout the week for discussions and celebrations, and work together on a variety of charitable and service projects.

"[5] The school had a predominantly educated female faculty, and a curriculum that required Latin and French, German and Greek, laboratory sciences, history, literature, advanced mathematics, elocution and art.

Students would undergo examinations with the supervision of university professors and had to pass the entrance exam for Bryn Mawr College in order to graduate.

[citation needed] She was often onsite during the construction of the school building in downtown Baltimore from 1888 to 1890, which featured an indoor swimming pool with cold “needle baths,” a gymnasium with a suspended track, and the Sargent School of Boston, as well as a full-time physician to oversee athletic and posture programs.

A model of the building was made for the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago and numerous articles about it appeared in newspapers across the country.

The 26-acre (110,000 m2) property known as The Orchards was purchased in 1928 from the Gordon family north of the city line, and the school spent several years acquiring the funds to gradually move out of its home downtown and into renovated and new buildings in the country.

Other structures built of complementary materials include Howell (1969) which houses the Upper School and the Edith Hamilton Library, Hardy (1969) for science and math, the Cafeteria (1948), Katherine Van Bibber Gymnasium (1959), the Lower School complex designed by Marcel Breuer (1972), Centennial Hall (1987), the Barbara Landis Chase Dance Studio (1992), the Lower School Science building (1996), the Admissions Cottage (1997), and a variety of small outbuildings and additions.

Offerings in other foreign languages including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Greek begin in the ninth grade and are usually coordinated with Gilman and Roland Park.

[14] The athletics program today provides a wide range of offerings for competitive play including cross country, track, volleyball, basketball, softball, crew, squash, ice hockey, swimming, and dance.

Twice an academic year, once in the fall and once in the spring, RPCS and Bryn Mawr hold Spirit Weeks, during which the two schools play games against each other in sports such as field hockey and lacrosse.