Southern Cayuga High School
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Southern Cayuga High School is a rural secondary school (grades 7-12) in Poplar Ridge, Cayuga County, New York.
SCHS is operated by Southern Cayuga Central Schools.
In 2003 it had some 585 students and 45 teachers. The student body was 98% white, and 24% were eligible for free lunch, higher than the state average of 15%. Its New York State School Report Card reports that it exceeded all three required standards (graduation in English and Mathematics, and dropout rate) in 2001.
In 2005 the serving principal was replaced at the end of his three-year probationary period after admitted to plagiarising a speech he made to the 2004 graduating class.
The school's student-produced newspaper is called The Source, and is associated with a one-semester journalism class.
