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Shenendehowa High School is a public high school in New York's Capital Region. It is part of the Shenendehowa Central School District and serves the district's 9th through 12th graders. Both of the school's two buildings are located on the district's main campus off of State Route 146. The recently expanded East building houses 10th through 12th graders, and the west building houses only freshmen.
The original high school was built in the early 1970s and designed to be a model facility for its time. The design included plans for an inground pool and a building-wide closed-circuit television network complete with a broadcast studio and television sets in every classroom. Eventually the district found itself without enough budget money to fund both projects. Polls were taken of the students and faculty to gauge majority interest, and eventually the television network was chosen and implemented. The area set aside to house the pool was utilized as a weight room, and the school enjoyed student run news broadcasts and educational films in the classrooms. Over the next twenty years, maintenance and upgrades were neglected and by 1990, the studio had been dismantled with its space converted for use as a computer lab.[citation needed]
A 2006 student-run survey of 152 students found that 36% have tried marijuana, 10% have experimented with hallucinogens, and 4% have tried cocaine or ecstasy. In addition, 25% of sophomores, 31% of juniors, and 60% of seniors claimed they have had sexual intercourse, which are consistent with national averages.[1]
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