River Trails Middle School is a sixth through eighth grade middle school located in Mount Prospect, Illinois

Mount Prospect, Illinois

Mount Prospect is a village in Elk Grove and Wheeling Townships in Cook County, Illinois, about northwest of downtown Chicago. As of the 2010 census, the village had a total population of 54,167.-Geography:...

, located at 1000 North Wolf Road, which is approximately 22 miles northwest of Chicago

Chicago

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. Students from the district are from Mount Prospect, Prospect Heights

Prospect Heights, Illinois

Prospect Heights is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, which is a suburb of Chicago. The population was 17,081 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Prospect Heights is located at ....

 and Des Plaines

Des Plaines, Illinois

Des Plaines is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It has adopted the official nickname of "City of Destiny." As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,720. It is a suburb of Chicago, and is next to O'Hare International Airport...

. It is part of River Trails School District 26. The students at RTMS will come from either Euclid Elementary School or Indian Grove Elementary School, which are both located in Mount Prospect and are K-5 schools, which all make up and belong to District 26. River Trails' students mostly go on to attend John Hersey High School

John Hersey High School

John Hersey High School, , is a four-year public high school located in Arlington Heights, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois in the United States, it has its students from Arlington Heights and also takes some students from Prospect Heights, Mount Prospect and a small part of Des...

 in Arlington Heights

Arlington Heights, Illinois

Arlington Heights is a village in Cook and Lake counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it lies about 25 miles northwest of the city's downtown. The population was 75,101 at the 2010 census....

, but a few later go on to Maine West High School

Maine West High School

Maine West High School, or MWHS, is a public four-year high school located in Des Plaines, Illinois, a north-west suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States...

 in Des Plaines.

The school has brought back its foreign language programs (offering Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and has switched to a 10-period daily schedule. Instead of Student Council

Student council

Student council is a curricular or extra-curricular activity for students within elementary and secondary schools around the world. Present in most public and private K-12 school systems across the United States, Canada and Australia these bodies are alternatively entitled student council, student...

, the school has "Student Government". RTMS is known for its music program, which consists of concert band, orchestra, bucket band, steel drum band, and chorus/roc n' boc. Bucket band involves drumming on a bucket to certain songs. Roc 'n boc chevrolet was designed for students in band and orchestra, as band/orchestra and chorus cannot both be taken during the school day. The teacher for steel drum band, bucket band, and chorus has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show

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 after being honored as an outstanding teacher.

School Notes

School Colors: Blue & White

School Mascot: Chiefs

School Nickname: RTMS and Trails

Sports

River Trails includes six sports: cross-country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

, volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, wrestling

Wrestling

Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

, and poms.