Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/High schools

disambig

What should be the format for disambiguation when there are schools with the same name? Most use either Garfield High School (New Jersey) or Highland Park High School, New Jersey, to give an example, although it can vary using either state name, city name, or both. I think the latter example should be preferred. --Chroniclev 07:24, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

This answer is probably to late, but we had a vote, and it was decided to use parenthesis. See Wikipedia:Schools#Article name. So, Garfield High School (New Jersey) is correct, and Highland Park High School, New Jersey should be moved to Highland Park High School (New Jersey). --Rob 22:01, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I've been puting them in the format of Name High School (Town, State) if there is more than one by the same name in the same state. Is that correct?--Rayc 21:14, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Notable alumni

I added a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/alumni, as I hope more people will factor in such information, when picking which school to create an article. It's definately not a sole criterion for making a selection, but I feel the presence of notable alumni makes for a better school article (all other things being equal), than just picking a school at random from a redlink list, or just doing them in order they're listed.

Also, unrelated, I removed the Jimbo quote. I just don't see its relevance/usefullness here. --Rob 04:59, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

split pages

Is it possible to split the page for places like Texas and California (1427 and 1386, respectively) since it is much too big to go and scroll through the edits, find the one school, and fix the link. That said, how would it be split? (City Name, School Name, Region...)

typo

The article The North Broward Preparatory School in Florida should be plural: The North Broward Preparatory Schools. See NBPS official page CClio333 23:14, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

The article Glades Central High School in Florida should be Glades Central Community High School. See GCCHS offical page. CClio333 23:19, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Demographics, etc

How do we find all the demographical information these articles have? --Chris Griswold(☏) 12:51, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

High School Directory Website

I found this site and it seems to have most if not all of the high schools in the united states here. If you would like to check it out here is the link.http://www.directoryofschools.com/high-schools/US.htm Ive done this because i won't be able to finish all of the high school lists by myself so this could be a very helpful resource for those of you that wish to help.--Xxagile (talk) 07:39, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Arizona

I've been on a massive drive to create articles on high schools in Arizona. Massive. In fact, I've created over 100 to date (plus some five high schools in other states were added as a result of disambiguation pages, and I've done work to improve other high school articles in the past).

One thing that struck me compared to my trusty reference, List of high schools in Arizona (which has more redlink schools, especially charters), was that there were many misnamed schools (Northwest Community Christian HS --> Northwest Christian HS, Red Rock HS --> Sedona Red Rock HS, some parentheticals, Scottsdale Christian Academy was listed as Scottsdale Christian HS which did not exist, etc.) as well as articles that had been created since the list was last touched in April 2008. Many of the removals, aside from the dozens of new articles, were mis-named in this list. In fact, removing all those articles brings Arizona to have the third-highest creation rate of high schools from the original list (behind New Jersey and Ohio), at a whopping 87%. At least 20, 25 of the missing high schools are not reflected in that (for example, all of The Leona Group's Arizona operations were only in List of high schools in AZ). We may have the third highest completion rate in the United States thanks to my work, but there ARE more than 30 high schools to go.

This was the original list when I discovered it: [1]

Some articles, such as "Alhambra High School (Arizona)", were under the wrong parentheticals ("Mountain View High School (Tucson)" wasn't even actually in Tucson, but Marana, where it can be found!) or did not need them ("Valley Christian High School" existed without the "(Arizona)"). "Fountain Hills Junior-Senior High School" had split. One, "Sinagua High School", had been closed outright, and possibly "Taylor High School (Arizona)". One, Calvary Baptist Church, will need to be reinstated as it links to a Wisconsin school (Holbrook turned out to be in a similar pickle, which moved an English high school to a parenthetical). There was even one that had visibly been misplaced: "Mountain Ridge High School (Alabama)".

You can see the neglect. Is this the case everywhere at this WikiProject? Raymie (t • c) 06:20, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Update: The dust has mostly settled, with the United States's highest school completion rate (98+%), four more schools to go, and quite a few changes.

Looking back on that old revision, there are a few caveats:

• Alpha Omega Academy. Not a real school, actually a company with Iowa offices that also does Christian distance learning.
• Evit Chandler Air. Probably intended to be for East Valley Institute of Technology, a JTED.
• Greyhill Academy HS. Actually "Greyhills". Created early on.
• Hopi Junior-Senior HS. Created at Hopi Junior/Senior High School. The nature of the school confused me a lot at first, but it's a BIA school that's larger than the town's public high school.
• Horizon Charter School. Horizon Community Learning Center/Horizon Honors HS was probably meant.
• Joseph City HS. Junior/Senior added.
• Kingman Acad. of Learning HS. HS distinction dropped, as this is a K-12 institution. Eventually created February 6, 2011.
• Luz Academy. Not yet done, but now known as Luz-Guerrero Early College High School.
• Metro Art Institute. Actually ARTS Institute.
• New School for the Arts [and Academics]. Full name used.
• Orme High School. An article was created at the full name, The Orme School of Arizona.
• Taylor. Probably closed. No AIA enrollment history, either.
• Thomas Edison in Union City: No evidence for existence found. Could be a dead charter, too. Renaissance Academy appeared in LOHSIA, but it had a charter revoked. One campus became another charter with a high school component, Jefferson Academy.

Raymie (t • c) 01:11, 22 June 2011 (UTC)