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All Rice students have required summer reading. All students are also expected to read one of the three all-school selections: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Left to Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza or The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. Parents and alumni are encouraged to choose one or more of the all-school selections to read too!

Since September 2020, enrollment has grown 28% and is approaching levels we haven't seen in 10 years. Rice isn't alone. Catholic schools around Vermont and the nation are seeing unprecedented interest. What is driving this growth and can it be sustained? Check out this article quoting Rice officials in Forbes.

Rice is proud to announce that science teacher Darren Clas has been chosen by the Green Mountain Chapter of the Air Force Association as their 2021 Teacher of the Year. Click to read more about this exciting honor. Congrats, Mr. Clas!

On Thursday, June 3, we held our traditional Underclassman Awards ceremony. Click to view the list of award recipients and for the recording. Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to David Wendeln, Valedictorian and Ben Hershey, Salutatorian. Click HERE to learn more about these exemplary students.

Check out this video montage of our seniors sharing their post-graduation plans. Thanks to Rice parent Doug Bergstrom for creating this keepsake.

The Rice Course Viewbook demonstrates our goal of providing students with a rigorous educational experience that helps them reach their college and career goals. We offer 15 honors and 12 Advanced Placement classes, including the prestigious AP Capstone Diploma Program. We've expanded our music offerings this fall, added Chinese to our language offerings, and hope to better understand our cultural differences in a course title Voices and Visionaries. Take a peek at Rice's curriculum here.

As Catholics, we believe each student is made in the image of God and has been blessed with a unique set of gifts and talents. While at Rice, our mission is to help them realize, celebrate and share their gifts. Starting today in our story, we will honor the remarkable Class of 2021 who have persevered through a most unusual senior year. Each school day, we will post personalized messages to our seniors, saluting their accomplishments and recognizing their unique contributions to Rice.

Congratulations to our Rice student-athletes who have been honored for their personal sports achievements. Click HERE to see who they are. A special nod goes to Michel Ndayishimiye '21 who finished his career at Rice with 1200 points and was named for the second year in a row as the Vermont Basketball Coaches’ Association Player of the Year. Congrats, Mich!

Please take a few minutes to read the latest edition of the Student Diversity Union's newsletter, Ubuntu.

Rice is one of only two high schools in Vermont offering the AP Capstone Diploma Program. Over 20 students are taking the first course in this two-course program, AP Seminar. This week, the AP Seminar students completed the first round of their final Performance Tasks, a course requirement. Each team was asked to develop a research problem and question, research that problem, develop a solution, and report their findings. Their findings will go to The College Board as a part of their final portfolio. Congratulations to our AP Seminar students on this exciting milestone!

Rice is blessed to have an exceptionally active School Board. Who are these dedicated individuals and how are they getting their hands dirty? Click on this news story to find out more.

It's playoff season and our Rice basketball teams are in the running! Tune in EARLY tonight for the boy's basketball game vs. CVU to watch the Rice drumline jump start things at 4:50pm! The streaming link can be found on our homepage. And, congratulations to our girls' basketball team who with last night's decisive 57-34 win over BHS advances to the state championship finals on Saturday! Check the Rice website for details later this week. Good luck to all!

Check out the winter edition of our alumni e-newsletter here.

This February, the Rice Student Diversity Union organized a comprehensive celebration of Black History Month. Click here to learn more.

2020 demonstrated the remarkable strength and ingenuity of Catholic schools like Rice. Despite the many challenges, Rice prospered with the support of the donors listed here. This Valentine's Day, we gratefully acknowledge the love our donors have shown Rice. Thank you!

This week is Catholic Schools week, an annual, nation-wide celebration of Catholic education. The Wall Street Journal's William McGurn's OP-ED highlights how much as been accomplished in Catholic schools over the last 10 months as schools everywhere grapple with COVID. Learn more about this complicated issue here.

Our alumni database desperately needs updating! We have close to 2000 alumni tagged as 'lost.' We miss these important members of the Rice family and would love to find them. Do you know where they are?

One of the pillars of the Rice mission is academic excellence. Learn more about how we foster this goal by watching this recording of a Zoom presentation made on January 13.

Potential inductees to the 19th Hall of Fame class must have graduated from either Rice or Cathedral in good standing, be out of high school for at least 10 years (Class of 2011 or earlier), and embody the mission of Rice Memorial High School.