The fire began in a two-room building on Old Pike Road, a street that is now part of Greenville Avenue.

During the period of the late 1950s, RHS shared facilities with Westwood Junior High School on Abrams Road.

On January 8, 1991, Jeremy Wade Delle, a 15-year-old[6] sophomore, fatally shot himself with a .357 Magnum in front of his second-period English class.

[8] On July 30, 2008, teacher and coach Brent Archie was arrested on charges of having relationships with three female students.

Archie was a football and wrestling coach, and also taught Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) and world history.

[17] In 2009, the school's student news team started a public, student-written magazine known as The Talon.