Richland High School is a public secondary school in Richland.

History The small farming community continued to develop as weapons production climbed during the Cold War, and the town was designated as a first-class city in 1958. Columbia High was renamed Richland High School.

Hanford was home to the Manhattan Project's B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world. Plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the nuclear bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan. Mushroom cloud logos are proudly displayed throughout the school, and the student body used to shout "nuke 'em" at sporting events.

Its depiction of a mushroom cloud as an unofficial logo for the school, believing that the logo and the mascot to be glorifying the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Athletics Basketball: Richland has four boys’ state basketball championships: 1958, 1972, 1979, and 2026. The 1979 team included Brian Kellerman, who later played for the University of Idaho, earning Big Sky Conference's player of the year as a

Alumni Gene Conley: Class of 1948 – MLB pitcher and NBA forward Kathleen Flenniken: Class of 1978 – poet, Washington State Poet Laureate Santino Fontana: Class of 2000 – stage actor, director, and composerRichland School District honors and awards . Retrieved 11 July 2012 Brian Kellerman: Class of 1979 – basketball player James Mattis: Class of 1968 – USMC General, commander of U.S. Central Command,Richland native Gen. Mattis to replace Petraeus, Tri-City Herald, July 9, 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2012 and Secretary of Defense Leon Rice: Class of 1981 – basketball coach at Boise State University Kathryn Ruemmler – White House Counsel to President Barack Obama June 2011 – June 2014"Ruemmler Started Out as Enron Prosecutor", dated 1 January 2011"White House Counsel", dated 10 October 2014 Hope Solo: Class of 1999 – U.S. Soccer Federation and Women's Professional Soccer goalkeeperHope Solo seeks more gold, adventure and balance, MaxPreps, July 9, 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2012 Kayla Barron: Class of 2006 – astronaut Eric Yardley: Class of 2009 – MLB pitcher

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