Not true when the school was first built ... Rockingham County High school was built to consolidate the aging schools at Ruffin, Wentworth and Bethany in 1976-77. At the time, there were multiple school systems in the county – thus the reason for those three 1-A schools' students all attending RCHS. Reidsville had its own school board and the county its own - not sure about Western Rockingham which had Madison-Mayodan and Stoneville high schools. Mule you can correct this if need be.
But when the county's school systems merged into one in 1993, the school board at the time could (should) have used geography to redistrict students to the closest schools possible. The students from the Ruffin area should have been districted to Reidsville (17 minutes) instead of Rockingham High (21 minutes). Also some in the northeastern part of the old Bethany school district are a lot closer to Reidsville.
At one time, the schools in Rockingham County were similar in size:
Here are the line-ups when all were in one conference:
1977-1980
Mid-State West 3-A
Reidsville
Rockingham County
Madison-Mayodan
Morehead
Northeast Guilford
Northwest Guilford
Southeast Guilford
Western Guilford
Eastern Guilford
1989-1992
Triad 3-A
Reidsville
Rockingham County
McMichael (opened 1991)
Eden Morehead
Northeast Guilford
Northwest Guilford
Western Guilford
Eastern Guilford
Seems that Morehead went 4-A for a few years after 1992 and the other three county school remained in the same conference and classification. Reidsville and McMichael stayed in the same 2-A conference through 2008 and since then Reidsville has been 2-A and the other three county schools have been 3-A.
