Pleasure Ridge Park High School is a High School

High school

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 located at 5901 Greenwood

Greenwood

- Canada :* Greenwood, Calgary, Alberta, a neighbourhood* Greenwood, British Columbia, a city* Greenwood, Nova Scotia, a village* Greenwood, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, a community in the Halifax Regional Municipality...

 Road in the Pleasure Ridge Park neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

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. It is part of the Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky)

Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky)

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 district. It is located next to Greenwood Road Elementary School and Valley Sports Little League.

The campus consists of four buildings, a football

American football

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stadium, a softball field, a band practice field, a baseball field, a soccer field, and a football practice field. The main building consists of the old gym, the ITV room, the lunch room, the library, two computer labs, the main office, and the counselor's office. The tech building consists of the freshman office, a computer lab, and the weight room. The machine shop was removed when a large amount of JCPS teachers got moved around. The other two buildings are the E building and the new gym.

Football death

In January 2009, the school's football coach, David Jason Stinson, was indicted with a charge of reckless homicide in the death of lineman Max Gilpin, who collapsed during practice in August 2008 when the heat index reached 94. Gilpin had a temperature of 107 when he arrived at the hospital, and he died three days later. Stinson resigned pending the outcome of the case, and was found not guilty in September 2009.

Website

The Pleasure Ridge Park website is maintained by David Jason Stinson, with an occasional edit from current Junior Robert Maehl. An update to the website, previewable here, was suggested by Robert Maehl but was later dropped.