Talk:Crane Union High School

New article notes

• coords?

The coords above are a guess, just from looking at the sat view of the city. The address is from OSAA; can anyone confirm that is the high school? I'm not willing to add it to the infobox without some form of confirmation.

• Crane Union High School history

The above is a good article to be integrated. I don't have the wordsmith skills to read and parse through it. tedder (talk) 23:15, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Is it still open?

I'd heard talk of closing it in 2009.... Kairos (talk) 01:16, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Still open from what I see WhisperToMe (talk) 14:08, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Reorganization?

There was some reorganization proposal in 1959

• "Crane School Area Proposal Wins Approval". The Idaho Daily Statesman. 1959-09-24. p. 19 of Section 2. - Clipping from Newspapers.com WhisperToMe (talk) 04:15, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Size comparison

I saw comparisons of the district's size to the sizes of several states, but when I did calculations the math didn't seem to check out.

Here are sizes of particular states:

• Connecticut: 4,842.37
• Delaware: 1,948.55
• Massachusetts: 7,800.96
• New Jersey: 7,354.76
• Rhode Island: 1,033.89

Sizes of the district:

• Farm Journal (1998) and The Bulletin (2002) stated 7,700 sqmi
• Governor of Oregon (2006) stated 7,500 sqmi

Evaluating claims:

• Farm Journal (1998) says the school district's territory is slightly larger than that of the sum of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. I'll take the larger figure, 7,700 (appears in the same article). CT+MA+RI combined is 13,677.22. This claim is  Not done
• The Bulletin (2002) says the school district's territory is around the size of Massachusetts. I'll take the larger figure, 7,700 (appears in the same article). Massachusetts is 7,800.96. This claim is  Done
• Los Angeles Times (1998) says the school district's territory is around the sum of Delaware, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. This article does not give an area size, but I'll take the larger figure, 7,700 as it appeared in another article in 1998 and in another in 2002. DE+NJ+RI are 10,337.2. This claim is  Not done

WhisperToMe (talk) 14:37, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Covering Malheur County?

I am aware in Oregon, "Joint" means the district crosses county boundaries (this page by Eugene School District explains this). While "Joint" is in the district's name, currently (as of 2020) District 1J is confined to Harney County, and the US Census Bureau does not put a star next to the district's ID number (a star means the district crosses county boundaries). I know some older sources stated the district included parts of Malheur County. None of Malheur County is, as of 2020, in District 1J (the text list of school districts for Malheur County does not show District 1J). I checked some of the other districts of Malheur County and couldn't find any that by default/automatically sent students to 1J.

The US Census Bureau only has school district maps dating to 2010. The 2010 Map of Harney (text list) and 2010 Map of Malheur (text list) show the same districts as 2020.

Now I am trying to look for historical info on how this school served Malheur County. This 2002 article:

• Hagemeier, Heidi (2002-10-20). "Public boarding school is one of few". Statesman Journal. Salem, Oregon. Associated Press. p. 3C. - Clipping at Newspapers.com - Also at: "Untitled". The Bulletin. 2002-10-06. Archived from the original on 2006-10-10. Retrieved 2022-07-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

...states that District 1J included parts of Malheur County.

I am wondering if at some point a rural Malheur County district officially sent all HS students to Crane, but changed later? I wonder if old documents from the State of Oregon's Department of Education on the Wayback Machine talk about it? WhisperToMe (talk) 00:15, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

The Malheur ESD member district list in 1998 did not mention Harney 1J. The school directory (see page 32/55) of 2000 also does not directly mention 1J (the 1998 directory sadly was not archived). Unless there's some inter-district agreement I don't know about, maybe the district's shape changed in previous decades and/or some inter-district agreements stopped being automatic? WhisperToMe (talk) 00:26, 12 March 2024 (UTC)