U.S. Rep. Ami Bera, whose district includes Rio Americano, congratulated the school band for its selection to Essentially Ellington, the prestigious jazz festival. Bera noted that no other high school...

Students Jazmin Coronado-Apesoa, Taiyo Kinoshita, Maddie Merrill, Maddie Lacoste and Ethan Perez won first place in the sixth annual Rio Americano love film festival for "Love of a Lifetime." You can...

Rio Americano will pilot a new tardy system for students arriving late to their first period beginning in the fourth quarter of the semester. Students will swipe their ID cards at scanners located near...

While many Rio students spend the first weeks of May studying for and taking AP tests, participants in the AM jazz band will be performing at Essentially Ellington, a nationwide competition for high school...

Two Rio Americano students have been chosen to exhibit in the top show of student photography in the Sacramento area. Senior Zoe Overholt and sophomore Eleanor Thornton will each have photos in the...

Junior Samrita Naidu won this year’s school Poetry Out Loud competition on Jan. 14 and will compete for the county title on Feb. 5. Naidu, who goes by Sami, stood out for her recitation of Diane...

Rio Americano’s new orchestra and guitar classes didn’t exist last year. Nor did new high-tech materials for the school’s art classes, or a fresh kiln for ceramics. But funding from Prop 28 has created...

Following a scoring “recalibration” by the College Board, the percentage of students passing many Advanced Placement exams has increased sharply in recent years.  In 2021, for example, 44% of English...

A new report by PEN America reveals that more than 4,200 book titles were banned in U.S. schools during the 2023-24 academic year, marking a rising trend in educational censorship. According to Banned...

The San Juan Unified School District has added six new electric school buses to its fleet. The buses were introduced through the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Grant. Reduced fossil fuel emissions...

Voters in the San Juan Unified School District on Tuesday handily approved Measure P, the “Classroom Repair Measure,” which will raise $950 million for district schools for major facilities work. Funds...