I agree...white backgrounds are so much easier on the eye. My high school colors were black and red but they had different schemes for websites. Maybe this will be a little inspiration....
1.
Hart High School
This is our high school's official page, designed by students and all with black text on white but color splashed in.
2.
HartBurn
This is the team's webpage, also designed by students. It mostly has gray but there's black and red throughout (like the News Archive Page). It won the website award in LA so I guess they liked it.
Hope this helps!
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