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Central Mountain High School is a public high school located at 64 Keystone Central Drive, Mill Hall, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States. In the 2020–2021 school year, enrollment was reported as 1,152 pupils in 9th through 12th grades. Central Mountain High School is one of two high schools in the Keystone Central School District, the other being Bucktail Area Middle/High School. Keystone Central is the geographically largest school district in Pennsylvania.

Central Mountain's colors are royal blue, and white, and their mascot is the Wildcat. The school is the combination of three other high schools, Lock Haven High School, Bald Eagle-Nittany High School, and Sugar Valley High School, which were heavy rivals in the past. Construction of the building began in 1997 and the school was opened for the 1999-2000 school year. It was designed by the Quad 3 construction group.

Sports
Central Mountain sport programs include cross country, volleyball, football, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls tennis, wrestling, track and field, golf, swimming, softball, and baseball. The school participates in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association. The school qualifies as an AAAA school but some sports play in AAA competition. They also participate in the Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference.

Penn State child sex abuse scandal
Central Mountain is the high school that originally brought to light the sexual predation of minors by former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.

Victim 1
The grand jury investigation into Sandusky was initiated in the spring of 2008 after Aaron Fisher (identified in court papers as "Victim 1"), then a freshman at Central Mountain, reported that Sandusky had been molesting him since age 12. Fisher met Sandusky through The Second Mile in the summer of 2005, when Sandusky began making advances toward Fisher which involved "inappropriate touching". At the time of the alleged actions, Sandusky was volunteering as an assistant football coach at Central Mountain, where these assaults took place. Sandusky would pull Fisher out of class with the permission of vice principal Steve Turchetta, leading Fisher to avoid him by hiding in the bathrooms. At the age of 15, Fisher reported the abuse to his mother and principal Karen Probst, who reportedly told the mother and son to go home and "think about it".