The school, a ten classroom, two-building structure, has a freshman class of 64 ninth grade students. Now in 2019, the twelfth year of operation, the student body has grown to 350 students. HRSS provides a high quality education and daily lunch to 100 girls and 250 boys. The school has successfully graduated eight classes. 

The school's academic year runs from March until December with a three week break in August. The school's permanent structure allows classes to continue through the rainy season. Textbooks and school supplies are provided for each student and classes are led by university-trained teachers from South Sudan and Uganda. Students are empowered to become leaders in their communities.  Quality secondary education is a true luxury in South Sudan, especially in rural areas. 

In addition to providing strong academics, HRSS is committed to teaching gender equity and peace reconciliation. Educating girls in a co-ed environment that promotes gender equality is convincing young South Sudanese women of their created value, and teaching young South Sudanese men that girls are their equals as they compete with them in the classroom. It is changing the cultural norms. These changes are helping to end the practice of early child marriage. 

HRSS addition of a girls' dormitory built in 2013, allows the female students a safe environment to remain in school. It has made a real difference in the girls' academic performance! The girls are now performing academically as well as the boys. Gender equality is critical to developing the nation. 

In addition to providing a quality learning environment, HRSS also provides a daily nutritious lunch of rice and beans so that our students are well-equipped to learn and perform. This is likely to be many students only meal for the day. (Currently, as many as 7.5 million people, nearly two in every three people in South Sudan are food insecure, according to the UN Humanitarian Overview in 2016.)

With a hot meal, textbooks, a permanent structure and trained teachers, students are provided a safe and focused learning environment. We need your support to continue to provide an exceptional and unique education for the youth of this region and to expand the daily nutritious lunch by adding fruits and vegatables.