Sylvan Hills High School (SHHS) is an accredited comprehensive public high school located in the City of Sherwood, Arkansas, United States, serving grades nine through twelve. Sylvan Hills is one of six high schools administered by the Pulaski County Special School District (PCSSD) and serves as the main feeder school for Sylvan Hills Middle School. Prior to 1956, Sylvan Hills School instructed students through grade nine, until local citizens gathered to approve expanding the school to a senior high, resulting in its first graduating class in 1959. Then, due to the increasing population in the surrounding communities, the school moved to its current campus, adjacent to its former facilities, in 1967.
In 2012, Sylvan Hills is listed unranked in the U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools report and was ranked No. 1,556 of 2,008 high schools in the Challenge Index high school scoring system with an index score of 1.444, which is the number of college-level tests given at a school in 2011 divided by the number of graduates that year.
Sylvan Hills High's varsity sports teams have won 15 state championships in eight sports, primarily baseball.
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