Richardson High School
| Richardson High School |
| School type | Public |
|---|
| Grade levels | 9th through 12th |
|---|
| Principal | Charles Pickitt |
|---|
| Location | Richardson, Texas, USA |
|---|
| Contact | (469) 593-3000 |
|---|
| Enrollment | 1,502 (as of 2004) |
|---|
| Mascot | Eagles |
|---|
| Colors | Purple and Gold |
|---|
| Homepage | [1] |
|---|
Richardson High School is a
high school in
Richardson, Texas with a
2006 enrollment of approximately 2300 and a student/teacher ratio of 12.8. It is part of the
Richardson Independent School District. The school has an
arts,
law, and
science magnet program and an acclaimed Mock Trial team, the Legal Eagles, who have been the regional champion for eleven of the past twelve years, state champion in 2002 and 2003 and second-place state finishers in
2006.
The school, which opened shortly after the first public school in the city burned down in
1890, began in a two-room building on Old Pike Road, a street that is now part of Greenville Avenue. A rural school with fewer than 100 students up to
1950, the school's opened its present facility in
1959.
Richardson's sports mascot is the Eagles and the team shares Eagle-Mustang Stadium (capacity 11,000) with
J.J. Pearce High School. The school's student news magazine is the
Talon.On January 8,
1991, Jeremy Wade Delle, a 16-year-old sophomore who had recently transferred to the school, killed himself with a
.357 Magnum in front of his second-period English class. The tragedy inspired the
Pearl Jam song
Jeremy.
Steele Shepherd, a former student at the school, has gathered information for years on the Delle incident. Based on an interview with a school employee, he claims that Delle spent time in a psychiatric hospital prior to his arrival at Richardson High School and had been placed in in-school suspension for several weeks prior to the incident. "Imagine getting out of a hospital under those conditions and going to a new school, a new start, only to be thrown into suspension shortly after arriving," he writes.
*
Jeff Dunham, ventriloquist
*
Jay Johnson, ventriloquist
*
Gary Leva, filmmaker
*
Jake McDorman, actor
*
Bill Nichols, sportswriter
*
Anne Rice, author
*
Catherine Crier, TV Personality, Former
Texas State Judge
*
Carla Overbeck, Founding member,
Women's United Soccer Association*
Lane Turley, Actor
*
Tim Cowlishaw, Around The Horn Panelist and Sportswriter
*
Barry Watson, Actor
*
Bill Engvall, Comedian
*
School Website*
RISD Website*
Personal remembrance of Jeremy Delle's suicide by Jeff Ellis*
Steele Shepherd on Jeremy Delle
