Holland Patent Central High School
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The Holland Patent Central High School is located at Holland Patent, 12 miles northwest of Utica and 10 miles east of Rome in New York State, USA. The school's mascot is the Golden Knights.
[edit] Students
674 students are currently enrolled in the high school, in grades 9 to 12. The average class size is 25 students per class. Approximately 81% of Holland Patent Central High School's students attend college directly out of high school. The remaining students enter the work force or the military.
Holland Patent High School's average SAT scores are 550 verbal and 566 math. Many students also attend programs at Oneida County BOCES. The drop out rate is less than 1%.
[edit] Yersiniosis
In 1976, yersiniosis, a bacterial disease, struck the Holland Patent schools. It was initially diagnosed as appendicitis, and appendices were removed unnecessarily from many young children. The curious nature of the outbreak led to an unprecedented degree of media coverage, including a lengthy article in the New York Times, which called Holland Patent's water system "primitive." It turned out that the problem lay not with the water, but with the chocolate milk served in the school's cafeterias.
