Southwest Red Rock High School Information

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School Information

Southwest Red Rock High School, generally referred to as Red Rock by its student body and staff, is a well-funded modern facility. Originally built as part of a new initiative within Nevada to provide state of the art, secure education facility. Southwest Red Rock spent the first few years of its existence as an average academic school without any identity while its sports facilities approached completion. Once these were completed, however, the school exploded in popularity. This was due to a deliberate and motivated pivot by both the school and the Las Vegas Mayor to position it as the crown jewel of the new initiative, especially as it pertained to sports, with the state-of-the-art facilities bringing in many interested students.

The Red Rock Rattlers formally began competing the same year and following initially middle of the pack performances, every subsequent year has seen a top-fifteen finish in the state. The funding and sponsorships these performances have generated were the smartly reinvested into other areas of the school, being used on things such as computer labs with Mac computers, a renovated auditorium, dedicated performance space, and an expanded library. The layout of the school takes advantage of the consistency of the weather in Las Vegas and has no hallways. Instead, each faculty has its own classroom buildings, and the gym and auditorium are separated. The campus includes a lot of outdoor space for sports, such as football pitches, a baseball diamond, basketball and tennis courts, and a swimming pool, among other facilities.

This cycle of consistent upgrading and improvement has also been approached in a sustainable manner with the school focusing on one project at a time and never overreaching with its goals and ambitions. Academically, the school can be considered average to above average at best, although the rate at which students graduate hovers around 93% which sees it above the state average by seven percentage points.

The Southwest Red Rock Rattlers sports teams cover a full range of sports. One of the main attractions for prospective athletes is that Southwest Red Rock High School has a team for each major college sport, and focuses on getting the students college ready. The team's colors are red and black, and the school's mascot is Ronnie the Rattlesnake, an anthropomorphic rattlesnake.


City Information

Las Vegas, Nevada is renowned resort city located within the Mojave Desert. It is famous for its gambling, entertainment, fine dining and shopping, although most of its venues are located on the Las Vegas Strip, which despite the name is just outside of the city limits. Originally having forts built at points in 1844 and 1855, Las Vegas was properly settled in 1865 although it only existed as an agricultural settlement for much of these early years. It became a city in 1905 and was fully incorporated in 1911. In 1931 gambling was legalised, which would become one of the primary industries for the city and the one that made it internationally famous throughout the years.

It has a hot desert climate with long, extremely hot summers and short winters with cool nights, sunshine is also abundant throughout the year. Due to this climate rainfall is extremely rare with an average of 4.2 inches of rain per year, although there are the rare thunderstorms and heavy rainfalls as a result of the North American Monsoon in the summer months.

Las Vegas is located approximately 229 miles, a four hour drive away from Los Angeles, California and approximately 256 miles, a five hour drive away from Phoenix, Arizona. The actual Las Vegas Strip is officially 5 miles outside of the Las Vegas city limits in unincorporated Paradise, Nevada. Las Vegas is the most populous city in Nevada and the 25th most populous city in the United States, but is not the capital of the state. It has a population of 656,274. Its racial demographics are 42.1% White, 34.1% Hispanic, 11.1% Black or African American, 6.59% Asian, 4.52% Multiracial, 0.74% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 0.57% Other and 0.35% American Indian or Alaska Native. Politically Las Vegas leans Democrat, sitting in Clark County, which voted 53.66% Democrat, 44.31% Republican and 2.03% Independent. The median income for households in Las Vegas is $61,356 for a family, with it’s primary industries being accommodation and food services, retail trade, and health care and social assistance.