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National Honors Society
Inductees to Sycamore High School's NHS (National Honors Society) must demonstrate outstanding excellence in the areas of service, leadership, character, and scholarship. After being inducted, students continue their service to the school by serving as tutors to fellow students during late start Thursdays, after school tutor nights, and Sunday night tutoring sessions.

Courses
Sycamore High School offers a variety of classes, ranging in categories such as core classes and music classes. Students enrolled in AP classes is about 27%, and graduation rate is 95%. Their total enrollment is on (yearly) average 1,254 students. Class categories include:


 * Agriculture
 * Art
 * Business
 * Drivers Education
 * ELL
 * English
 * Math
 * Music
 * Physical/Health Education
 * Science
 * Social Studies
 * Special Education

Clubs
Sycamore High School offers a wide range of clubs to their students. Students are welcome to join any club they feel fit for. If a student would like to, running it by the principle and making sure they have a supervisor, any student can start their own club as well. Currently, they provide 25 options of extra-curricular activities, those include:


 * Art Club
 * Best Buddies
 * Big Sis/Lil Sis
 * DCP/Safe
 * Drama Club
 * Engineering Club
 * FFA
 * French
 * GSA
 * History
 * Interact
 * Key Club
 * NHS
 * Newspaper
 * Orchesis
 * Pep Club
 * Photo/Adventure Club
 * Science Fiction Club
 * Ski & Snowboard
 * Spanish Club
 * SpartanTV
 * Student Council
 * Technical Entertainment Crew (T.E.C.)
 * World Youth Club
 * Yearbook

Homecoming Week
Each year the school celebrates the week leading up to their Homecoming Dance. The whole week is also known as "Spirit Week." Each day there is a different "theme" that students have the option of dressing to such as; jersey day or tourist day. On the Monday of, a pep rally is held and 2 candidates from each club are announced as part of the homecoming court. Wednesday, students in the clubs decorate golf carts which the club candidates will drive down downtown sycamore as a part of the homecoming parade. Also held that night is the annual Powder Puff game, where a team of senior girls go against a team of juniors girls in a game of flag football. There, the top five voted homecoming court candidates are announced. Friday is the homecoming football game, where at half time, the homecoming "king and queen" are announced. The week concludes with the dance on Saturday.