Rice Lake High School


Rice Lake High School is a four-year public high school located in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Rice Lake High School is a part of the Rice Lake Area School District.

School overview

The history of Rice Lake High School can be traced back to 1882. Rice Lake High School also has more than 250 staff members.

Demographics

RLHS is 88 percent white, four percent Hispanic, two percent Asian, and one percent black. Four percent of students identify as a part of two or more races.

Athletics

Rice Lake High School competes in the Big Rivers Conference for athletics. It has teams for football, cross country, golf, swimming, tennis, volleyball, gymnastics, wrestling, basketball, hockey, baseball, softball, track and field, and soccer. Other schools in the Big Rivers Conference are Chippewa Falls High School, Hudson High School, Eau Claire Memorial, Eau Claire North, Menomonie High School, and River Falls High School. Rice Lake High School sports teams were originally in the Heart of the North Conference in 1929. In 1986, football entered the Big Rivers Conference, along with hockey in 1988. All sports entered into the Big Rivers Conference in 1989.

Big Rivers Conference Championships

1990-91
Boys basketball has participated in the Big Rivers Conference for 24 years. Within those 24 years they have claimed 8 conference championships.
Bob Lillyblad, who coached the boys hockey team from 1989-1992, lead the boys to 3 out of the 4 Big Rivers Conference championships.
1992-93
1996-97
1999-00
2000-01
Rice Lake High School football, since entering the Big Rivers Conference in 1986, has only won one conference championship.
2005-06
2006-07
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
‘’’2016-17’’’
  • ‘’Girls Softball Division 2 ‘’State Champions’’’
2017-18
Rice Lake High School has a wide variety of co-curricular activities including: athletics, H.E.R.O., S.A.D.D., conservation club, international club, gold show choir, instrumental music, student council, key club, VICA/Skills USA, math team, yearbook, national honors society, destination imagination, forensics, green action, RLHS theatre, DECA, FBLA, FCCLA, Gender-Sexuality Alliance, and FFA.