History
The school is named after Robert Thomas Alderman. Alderman was an influential person who brought junior high schools to Calgary in the late 1940. This school has been around since 1975 and is situated beside the Willow Park recreation center (whose outdoor facilities are often used for physical education by the school), and Maple Ridge Elementary School. The main colours of this school is blue, grey and white. The school logo was a hippopatamus for a number of years. The school logo now is a snake wound around the letters "RTA" The school's motto is "Together We Make A Difference"
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