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Riverside High School (Durham, North Carolina)

public high school in Durham, North Carolina, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7338505 ↗
Source-derived summary

Riverside High School is a public high school located in Durham, North Carolina. The principal of Riverside High is Dr. Gloria Woods-Weeks, who joined as principal in 2021. Current members of the school administrative team include Dr. Will Okun, Mr. Kwame Stith, Ms. Jasmine McKoy, Mrs. Tammy Patterson and Mr. Gene Jones.

The school enrolls students from grades 9–12.

Editorial summary

“Riverside High School (Durham, North Carolina)” enters the record as public high school in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Riverside, High and School can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Riverside, High and School.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Riverside High School (Durham, North Carolina)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Riverside, High and School provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7338505. Authority coordinates are 36.062, -78.943. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Riverside High School (Durham, North Carolina)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.