Raymond High School (RHS) is a public

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

in Raymond, Alberta, Canada. It is the one of many schools in the County of Warner No. 5 for grades 10 through 12. The school is in the Westwind School Division and has approximately 250 students.

Sports

Raymond High School—nicknamed the "Comets" (men and women)—has a tradition of competing in Alberta high school sports with schools that are much larger than it. Generally competing against schools that fit into the Tier I/4A Unlimited Enrollment category. While the school only averages roughly 250 students per year. Raymond High School has carved out a name for itself in High School sports across Alberta and even Canada. The 2010-11 Provincial Champion men's Football squad earned a Nationally ranked #1 spot as the best High School Football team in Canada. With their smallest margin of victory that season being 21 points. In 2008-09 Raymond Highschool won 5 Provincial Championships in 1 single school year (Men's Football, Men's and Women's basketball, Women's Rugby and Calf Roping by a single, Clay Barnson). The school has won the following

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provincial championships:

Basketball

Men's basketball

* 10 Division 4A championships (most recently in 2008–09, 2010–11)

Women's basketball

*5 Division 4A championships (2004–05, 2008–09, 2013–14, 2021–2022, 2022-2023

Canadian football

* 3 Tier III championships (1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93) * 9 Tier I championships (1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 2021-2022)2022-2023

Rugby union

Women's rugby union

* 11 Tier I championships (2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14 2014–15, 2016–2017, 2017–2018, 2018–2019, 2019–2020, including 7 consecutive between 2008 and 2015.

Noteworthy students

Earl W. Bascom Earl Wesley Bascom (June 19, 1906 – August 28, 1995) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, cowboy, rodeo performer, inventor, and Hollywood actor. Raised in Canada, he portrayed in works of fine art his own experiences of cowboying ...

, international artist and sculptor, rodeo pioneer and inventor, Canadian Rodeo Hall of Fame and Alberta Sports Hall of Fame inductee * Ted E. Brewerton, religious leader *

Lloyd Fairbanks Lloyd Fairbanks (born April 28, 1953, in Raymond, Alberta) is a former Canadian Football League offensive lineman who played seventeen seasons in the CFL. Fairbanks was named to the CFL's All-Star team 5 times. Fairbanks was announced as a memb ...

, professional football player * Skousen Harker, professional basketball player *

Brett Ralph Brett Ralph (born March 3, 1982 in Raymond, Alberta) is a former professional Canadian football receiver, who most recently played with the Canadian Football League's Calgary Stampeders. He is the younger brother of fellow CFL receiver Brock Ralp ...

, professional Canadian football player *

Brock Ralph Brock Ralph (born 7 July 1980) is a former professional Canadian football slotback and wide receiver. Early years Ralph was born to Jim and Shelly Ralph in Raymond, Alberta, and attended Raymond High School, where his junior and senior footba ...

, professional Canadian football player *

Phil Tollestrup Phil Tollestrup (born October 21, 1949) is a former Olympic basketball player as a member of the Canadian national men's basketball team during the 1970s. Six feet, six inches tall forward, Tollestrup attributes the development of his basketbal ...

, professional basketball player, Olympic basketball team member, Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame inductee *

Wendy Watson Nelson Wendy L. Watson Nelson (born May 31, 1950) is a Canadian-American marriage and family therapist, and professor. She worked with the Family Nursing Unit (FNU) at the University of Calgary (U of C) from 1983 to 1992, training graduate students to u ...

, professor, author, therapist, and wife of Russell Nelson, seventeenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints *

Jimmy Ralph Jimmy Ralph (born October 16, 1992) is a former professional Canadian football wide receiver. He began his professional career with the Toronto Argonauts in 2017 where he won his first Grey Cup as a member of the 105th Grey Cup championship team ...

Professional Canadian Football Player

Graduation controversy

In 2010, Raymond High School was at the centre of a controversy in which a graduating student was told he would not be allowed to wear a kilt to the graduation ceremony. The decision made news across Canada. After the story was reported in the news, the decision was reversed and the student was told he could wear the kilt to graduation.

Notes

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