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 Tonya Williams. (As of 10/31/2016)HistoryOpened in 1991, the school currently enrolls approximately 1, 900 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' engineering program which uses the national Project Lead the Way curriculum.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 football wrestling, men's lacrosse, volleyball, and swimming.Recent eventsIn 2007, Riverside was ranked as the 834th high school in America by Newsweek.In 2011, Riverside's Student Newspaper The Pirates' Hook was awarded the best student run newspaper in North Carolina.