Columbine High School
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| School aerial view | |
| type of school | High school |
| founding | 1973 |
| address |
6201 South Pierce Street |
| place | Columbine |
| State | Colorado |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 39 ° 36 '13 " N , 105 ° 4' 26" W |
| carrier | Jefferson County School District |
| student | 1,691 |
| Teachers | 84.86 ( FTE ) |
| management | Scott Christy |
| Website | columbinehs.jeffcopublicschools.org |
The Columbine High School is a secondary school in the School District of Jefferson County in the US state of Colorado . It is located in Columbine , a census-designated place near Littleton , a suburb of Denver .
It was founded in September 1973 and passed the first senior year in 1975. In 1995 the school underwent a major renovation. The school building covers an area of 250,000 sq ft .
The school became known worldwide through the rampage of two high school graduates on April 20, 1999 , in which twelve students and one teacher were killed and 24 other people were injured. The two perpetrators then committed suicide in the school library.
After the rampage, the school building had to be renovated again in order to remove all damage and traces that reminded of the crime. As part of the renovation, which cost $ 1.2 million, the stairs to the west entrance were redesigned, the original library was completely removed, and the cafeteria below was converted into a two-story atrium . In June 2001 the new library, financed by donations, was inaugurated.
Since the killing spree, the school has had to be cordoned off or evacuated several times due to dangers from potential copycat criminals or due to anonymous bomb threats .
Columbine High School continues to attract disaster tourists 20 years after the fact . In the period from June 2018 to May 2019 alone, the school's security forces had to prevent around 2,400 unauthorized persons from entering the school premises. Due to the associated risk to the students, the school officials considered tearing down the school and building it elsewhere. In a survey in the community in 2019, however, 60 percent of those questioned were against demolition, which is why the plan was not pursued.
Well-known former students
- Brooks Brown (* 1981), survivor of the rampage on April 20, 1999 and co-author of the book No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine (2002)
- Sera Cahoone (* 1975), musician
- Skip Ewing (born 1964), country singer and songwriter
- Eric Harris (1981–1999), one of the two perpetrators of the rampage on April 20, 1999
- Dylan Klebold (1981–1999), one of the two perpetrators of the rampage on April 20, 1999
- Rachel Scott (1981–1999), one of the victims of the April 20, 1999 shooting
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Columbine High School . National Center for Education Statistics, accessed January 1, 2020.
- ↑ Dave Cullen: Columbine. Hachette Book Group, New York, NY 2009, ISBN 978-0-446-55221-9 , p. 52.
- ^ Jaclyn Schildkraut, Glenn W. Muschert: Columbine, 20 Years Later and Beyond: Lessons from Tragedy. Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA 2019, ISBN 978-1-4408-6252-6 , p. 1.
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^ Jaclyn Schildkraut, Glenn W. Muschert: Columbine, 20 Years Later and Beyond: Lessons from Tragedy. Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA 2019, ISBN 978-1-4408-6252-6 , pp. 8 f., 135.
Peggy Lowe: Renovated and ready. In: The Denver Post. August 7, 1999, accessed February 23, 2019. -
^ Denver schools closed as a police search for woman accused of threats against Columbine. In: The Guardian. April 17, 2019, Retrieved December 7, 2019.
Dan Frosch, Maria Newman: Columbine Evacuated After Threat. In: The New York Times. March 1, 2007, accessed December 7, 2019. - ↑ Carol McKinley: Should schools and buildings be torn down after mass shootings? Columbine looks to others as it struggles with trespassers. In: Colorado Sun. June 24, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019.
- ↑ Jack Healy: Columbine High School Will Not Be Torn Down and Rebuilt. In: The New York Times. July 24, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019.