Riverside High School (Durham, North Carolina)

Riverside High School is a four-year public high school located in Durham, North Carolina. The current principal is Jackie Tobias. Opened in 1991 (the first class graduated in 1993), the school currently enrolls approximately 2100 students and is one of seven high schools in the Durham Public School System. The school offers classes on a block schedule on a semester basis, with students taking 4 classes—generally 2 core and 2 elective—each semester. Riverside is an accredited school and is also home to the Durham Public Schools' pre-engineering curriculum which is part of the Project Lead the Way Program.

Riverside's sixteen sports teams are part of the PAC-6 Conference, which includes schools in Durham County and the neighboring counties of Orange and Person. The school has fielded several state champions in wrestling, men's lacrosse, volleyball, and swimming.

Recent events

In 2007, Riverside was ranked as the 834th high school in America by Newsweek.^[1]

In 2011, Riverside's Student Newspaper The Pirates' Hook was awarded the best student run newspaper in North Carolina.

Notable alumni

• Megan Hodge, Gatorade National Player of the Year for volleyball as a high school senior in 2006, Penn State volleyball player, 2007 NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player, two-time AVCA first team All-American.^[2]
• Weslye Saunders, Pittsburgh Steelers tight end.^[3]

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