Cicero–North Syracuse High School hosts grades 10-12 and serves approximately 2,300 students. The school principal is William LaClair. Cicero–North Syracuse High School is often called C–NS. C–NS hosts many extracurricular activities, such as student clubs and sports teams. C–NS is the home of the Cicero–North Syracuse "Northstars" Marching Band. The school hosts about twenty co-ed sports, with New York State Championship titles in men's cross-country running in 1989, 1995, and 1996, and in girls softball in 1989, 1999, 2004, 2006 and 2013. In 2006, CNS won the Syracuse Area Live Theater Youth award for best High School Musical with their performance of "The Music Man" During the 2006-2007 school year, the school has hosted two school wide summits, one focusing on dress code. In 2009, the Cicero–North Syracuse High School Varsity Winterguard were crowned as the WGI SA Class Champions, winning the National Titlefor the first time, with a nearly perfect score of 97.4. They received a Perfect Score in the Movement Caption. In 2017 the Junior Varsity took first place in the Mid York Color Guard Circuit in the class SA2. The varsity team took first in Scholastic Open and received the bronze medal at WGI World Championships in Dayton OH. These achievements boosted the Varsity Winterguard to the Scholastic World class. In 2009, a math teacher at Cicero–North Syracuse was accused of robbing a bank at gunpoint. He was previously arrested for stolen license plates. He was sentenced to 4 years in jail. In 2010, the Boys and Girls varsity basketball teams became Section 3 champions for the first time in school history. In 2016 and 2017 the Marching Band won the Large School 2 state championships for the New York State Field Band Conference. This was the first championship win for the band in 29 years. Also in 2017, the band won the USBands 5A National Championship in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The group also performed in the 2018 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Threats
On April 23 2018, a concerned student informed a resource officer at the school about a potential school shooting after another classmate made statements that they were going to carry out acts of violence against the students and staff at the school. Deputies investigated the incident and charged a senior with making a terrorist threat. The Sheriff's Office of Onondaga County said they will continue to work closely with the staff and students at the school to ensure that they have a safe environment.
