About Us
The Future of STEM Education Today
Research Triangle High School was founded in 2012 to increase access to globally competitive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education for students and teachers across North Carolina, by incubating, proving and scaling innovative models of teaching and learning.
Education for the Real Life
We don’t believe that knowledge is contained in a classroom. Our educational program leverages access to the world through both traditional and newly minted means:
Knowledgeable
Staff
Our faculty and staff are committed to preparing our students for college and beyond by helping them move from being a teacher-directed, dependent learner to an independent, self-guided one.
Digital
Resources
Staff
We strive to prepare students for the 21st century workforce by instilling in students the skills, habits of thinking and digital literacy that global companies seek.
Outside
Experience
Staff
Vision
To provide the tools and develop the capacity for students to intentionally determine their futures.
Mission
To increase access to globally competitive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education for students and teachers across North Carolina, by incubating, proving and scaling innovative models of teaching and learning.
Values
- We hold high standards and encourage growth through failure.
- We provide students with the tools to access power.
- We find joy in learning and exploring.
- We respect each other.
- We are responsive.
Brief RTHS History
2002
Contemporary Science Center (CSC), a nonprofit RTHS is built upon, was founded to nurture students’ enthusiasm for careers in science and math.
2008
2010
2011
November 2011
A written charter was submitted to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
2012
RTHS charter was approved.
August 13, 2012
2017
Enrollment of 498 students.
We see school differently.
We see a place where what a student does is more important than where the student comes from, where success is rewarded but the effort that provides it is cherished. We seek to move students from dependent to independent learners, from receivers to creators of knowledge. We offer an unconventional way of experiencing conventional knowledge through experiential learning, and we bring the science of RTP into the curriculum.