Revere High School
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Revere High School is the public high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

 of the Revere Local School District in Richfield
Richfield, Ohio
Richfield is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,286 at the 2000 census. The village and the adjacent Richfield Township are approximately equidistant between the downtown areas of Akron and Cleveland...

 and Bath, Ohio. In 2007 and 2008, US News and World Report issued Revere High School a silver star, signifying that it is one of the top 505 high schools in the United States. RHS offers 16 Advanced Placement courses, offering students a chance to earn college credit for college level courses, and produces several National Merit Semifinalists a year. It continues to produce several successful alumni and has success in both academics and interscholastic activities.

Traditions

  • The football team plays its final game of the year against their rival Copley High School
    Copley High School
    Copley High School is a public high school in Copley, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Copley-Fairlawn City Schools district.It is in the Suburban League, and located on Ridgewood Road....

    , and the winner gets possession of The Victory Bell trophy.
  • At the Homecoming football game, instead of the marching band playing the Alma Mater, the marching band joins the Symphonic Choir to sing the Alma Mater. Band/choir alumni who remember their parts are often asked to come to the field to sing with the band and choir.

Sports

The men's association football soccer team advanced to the Ohio High School Athletic Association
Ohio High School Athletic Association
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 Division II State Final by defeating Walsh Jesuit
Walsh Jesuit High School
Walsh Jesuit High School is a private, Jesuit high school in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Founded in 1965, the school was funded by a gift from and named after Cornelius and Jane Walsh. It has been recognized fifty times as a Green Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S...

 2-1. They lost 2-3 to Dayton Carroll
Carroll High School (Dayton, Ohio)
Carroll High School is a private, coeducational high school located in Dayton, Ohio. It is run by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati...

 at Columbus Crew Stadium
Columbus Crew Stadium
Columbus Crew Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Columbus, Ohio and the home stadium of Major League Soccer club, Columbus Crew. Built in 1999, Crew Stadium was the first soccer-specific stadium built for a professional soccer team in the second pro era of American soccer...

 for the state championship.

The Minutemen have another chance again this year against Dayton Carroll for the state championship. This will be the Minutemen's third appearance to the soccer state championship (1980, 2010, 2011).

Match results

Notable alumni

  • Andy McCollum
    Andy McCollum
    Andrew Jon McCollum is an American football center who is currently a Free Agent. He was signed by the Milwaukee Mustangs as a street free agent in 1994. He played college football at Toledo....

    , an American football
    American football
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     center
    Center (American football)
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      (Class of 1988).
  • Michael Andrew Kukral
    Michael Andrew Kukral
    Michael Andrew Kukral is the author of one of the few published books detailing the experience of an American student during the 1989 Velvet Revolution in what was then communist Czechoslovakia...

    , the author of one of the few published books detailing the experience of an American student during the 1989 Velvet Revolution
    Velvet Revolution
    The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution was a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that took place from November 17 – December 29, 1989...

     in what was then communist Czechoslovakia. (Class of 1978).
  • John 'Derf' Backderf
    Derf
    Derf is the pseudonym of American artist John Backderf, most famous for the comic strip The City, which has appeared in a number of alternative newspapers since 1990. In 2006 Derf won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartooning....

    , an American
    United States
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     artist most famous for the comic strip "The City," which has appeared in a number of alternative newspapers since 1990. (Class of 1978).
  • Jeffrey Dahmer
    Jeffrey Dahmer
    Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was an American serial killer and sex offender. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991. His murders involved rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism...

    Serial killer and sex offender. (Class of 1978).
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