School History

       
 On the edge of Hyrum, overlooking farmland and the spectacular Wellsville Mountains and Bear River Range, South Cache High School was erected in 1916. It served 148 students. (In 1920, a second high school, named North Cache, was built in Richmond.) Students came to school by horseback, wagon, foot, or train. In 1922 and again in 1927 South Cache High School was expanded to its familiar, final structure.


       In 1935 South Cache High School was one of the first schools to offer students a hot lunch program. In 1938 the Work Projects Administration created athletic fields, bleachers and a track on the campus.

       South Cache Junior High (7-9) was designated in 1964 when Sky View High School opened in Smithfield. Almost 20 years later, in 1983, Mt. Crest High School opened on the east side of Hyrum, and South Cache became a middle school (6-8). In 1990 South Cache changed to a year-round 8-9 school. From 1994-1999 South Cache was one of two freshman centers in the state of Utah (the other was North Cache). Willow Valley Middle School was built south of the old South Cache structure and housed 6,7 and 8 grade students, as did Spring Creek Middle School in Providence. When a new (6-7) school was built in Wellsville, the new school took Willow Valley Middle School as its name and the 8-9 school in Hyrum became  South Cache 8-9 Center.  In 2016 our configuration has changed again, and we are now South Cache Middle School and we serve 7th and 8th grade students.


       Buses currently park on the north side of the cafeteria where once stood the old school. Some teachers still use bricks from the old building as door stops in the new building! The grand old, three-level South Cache High School building, with its large windows, brick walls, hardwood floors, many mysterious little cubbies, long vistas, and evergreen-lined driveway was demolished in 1999. It was the educational hub of the south end of the valley and will long be remembered by those who sat in its classrooms, played in its gymnasiums, competed on its fields, performed on its stage, listened in its auditorium, and walked through its hallways.