To ascertain whether high school students report being adversely impacted by knowing of a suicide, 88 mainstream (n = 20) or disaffected (n = 68) high school students from four different public high schools in the Southeast answered questions about their personal experiences and reactions to stressful life events. During school, students recieved parental consent forms (approximately 44% of which were returned completed). Those who then assented themselves completed the Impact of Event Scale about a suicide (or another stressful event), the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire, and the Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire. Disaffected students were enrolled in an in-school program for at-risk students. Average scores, consistent with research on college students, reflected a low level of suicidial ideas. Thode who knew someone who attempted or committed suicide (n = 19) were no more suicidal than those who reported a different stressful life event (n = 64), and all were impacted about the same in terms of both intrusion and avoidance. Disaffected students were no different from mainstream students in suicidality or impact. Apparently, high school students report moderate amounts of intrusion and avoidance following stressful events, whether the stressful event is knowing someone who commits suicide or something else such as death or divorce in the family.