South Sumter High School | |
Motto: | Tradition Never Graduates |
Streetaddress: | 706 N. Main St |
City: | Bushnell |
State: | Florida |
County: | Sumter |
Zipcode: | 33513 |
Country: | U.S. |
Coordinates: | 28.6726°N -82.1135°W |
Schooltype: | Public high school |
Founded: | 1919: as Bushnell High School. 1959: as South Sumter High School |
District: | Sumter District Schools |
Ceeb: | 100195 |
Principal: | Allen Shirley (2020 - present) |
Grades: | 9–12 |
Enrollment: | 1,047 (2016-17)[1] |
Slogan: | Raiders Achieve What They Believe, Tradition Never Graduates |
Conference: | 4A |
Team Name: | Raiders |
Rival: | Wildwood Middle-High School, The Villages Charter High School |
Accreditation: | Florida Dept of Education |
Url: | https://www.sumter.k12.fl.us/ssh |
South Sumter High School is a public high school in Bushnell, Sumter County, Florida. Its teams are the Raiders and its school colors are Red, Black and White.
South Sumter Raiders have had one of the longest winning high school football teams in Florida since 2000, and earned the top ranking in Division 4A in a 2012 Associated Press poll.[2] The team won their division and were 11–1 overall in 2012. Dallas Cowboys Linebacker Keanu Neal played for the Raiders.
Other competition sports include: Baseball, Basketball, Golf, Soccer, Softball, Track, Volleyball and Weightlifting.