RNE: the place to be!
- A Creative Ticket National School of Distinction
- A Red Carpet school
- Five times on Newsweeks list of best high schools nationwide
- Home of Cavplex, the most advanced high-school multimedia production facility in the country
- A Theatre Department selected four times in eight years by the American High School Theatre Festival to represent the U.S. at Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival
- 96 Seniors honored by the Columbia Urban League Young and Gifted Program (2007)
- The only arts conservatory in the Midlands
- The only high-school Convergence Media program in South Carolina
- A Model UN team that won first place at the National High School Model UN Conference
for 18 consecutive years
- 67 AP Scholars (2006) and 26 AP courses