Riverside Brookfield High School is a secondary school located in Riverside which educates grades 9-12. It serves the towns of Riverside, Brookfield, LaGrange Park, North Riverside and Broadview . The mascot of Riverside Brookfield (RB) is Rouser the Bulldog. Riverside Brookfield Township High School District 208 recently passed a $58 million referendum resulting in renovations to the school building, including a new swimming pool, athletics stadium, and classrooms, which was completed in the spring of 2010. In 2011, it failed to pass a second referendum, an event which led to the dismissal of several teachers and the essential dismantling of extracurricular activities, such as clubs and, notably, the theater department.
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