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WikiProject Schools articles		Importance
WikiProject Schools articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1	1	2			4
	FL	1			2		3
	A				1		1
	GA		6	11	6	1	24
	B	11	48	67	45	3	174
	C	9	50	119	215	33	426
	Start	31	188	873	3579	3247	7918
	Stub	6	45	482	6683	8401	15617
	List	27	52	134	371	53	637
	Assessed	86	390	1688	10902	11738	24804
	Unassessed	1			9	1875	1885
	Total	87	390	1688	10911	13613	26689

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Welcome to WikiProjects Schools! Some Wikipedians have formed a group to improve and standardize the quality and consistency of school-related articles. Ultimately, the goal here is to bring notable articles up to feature article standards. This project covers all articles about individual schools, school districts, and some general articles such as School. This project does not cover universities and colleges, except those that are a sixth form college.

1 Project goals
2 Article guidelines
3 Did you know?
4 Article grading
- 4.1 WikiProject Schools articles by quality
- 4.2 WikiProject Schools articles by importance
5 Top-importance school articles
6 Featured articles
7 A class articles
8 Good articles
- 8.1 Good article candidates
- 8.2 Potential good article candidates
9 School articles recommended for deletion
10 Article requests
11 Articles in need of emergency, short term attention
12 Article alerts
13 Participants
14 Templates
15 Resources
- 15.1 Sisterlinks
- 15.2 Related WikiProjects

[edit] Project goals

This project aims to improve the quality of school-related articles, and to provide a recommended article structure for all such articles. Articles affiliated with this project should become far more substantial than stubs, and should progress to the point of matching the quality of feature articles.

[edit] Article guidelines

Project members have created some guidelines at Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines on how school articles should be organized. Note that these guidelines are advisory and editors are not obliged to follow them.

[edit] Did you know?

The following school articles have featured in the Did you know? section on the main page.

Did you know...

...that the Annenschule high school in Saint Petersburg, Russia was transformed into a Soviet work school after the Russian Revolution, but now houses a lyceum? (26 December 2006)
...that Dougherty Valley High School will be, upon its opening, the first real-estate developer–built high school in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District? (12 May 2007)
...that La Martiniere Boys' College in Lucknow, India is the only school in the world to be awarded a battle honour? (28 June 2007)
...that three years after tying for its final Kentucky State Football championship, Flaget High School closed due to falling enrollment? (29 June 2007)
...that Alexander Pope was expelled from Twyford School for writing a poem that poked fun at one of his school masters? (18 July 2007)
...that in 1973, Margaret Thatcher temporarily saved the Strand Grammar School, famous for its contribution of young men to the British Civil Service, from closure? (26 August 2007)
...that the Nebraska School for the Deaf became nationally known within the Deaf community for its fight against an anti–American Sign Language state bill endorsed by Alexander Graham Bell? (30 August 2007)
...that Kellom Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska is the alma mater of Fred Astaire, Gale Sayers and Bob Gibson, as well as youth programs once led by Whitney Young? (September 2007)
...that The Harvey School, a rural school in New York, was established to give an education to the founder's handicapped son? (16 September 2007)
...that since 2002, New York's Middletown High School has seen the district superintendent convicted of sexual abuse, had one principal resign and another suspended, had two student walkouts and was ordered to reinstate a teacher? (17 September 2007)
...that Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in Singapore, as its students come from 39 countries? (27 September 2007)
...that the England national football team is to train on the football pitch of the Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College, as it is the only one identical to one in Russia on which they are due to play in October 2007? (28 September 2007)

...that in the early 20th century, when education was segregated in the United States, the Calhoun Colored School (pictured) focused on vocational education for African Americans instead of classical education to protect the school from being closed down? (18 October 2007)
...that St Patrick's Marist College Dundas, the oldest school in Australia run by Marist Brothers, started out as a primary school? (25 October 2007)
...that Ellenville Middle School (pictured) abandoned an experiment with single-sex classes after the school failed to meet No Child Left Behind Act standards? (30 December 2007)
...that Bunscoill Ghaelgagh is the only primary school that teaches only in the Manx language? (9 January 2008)
...that a former principal of Tubman Elementary School received a national award for her work which included a discipline program featuring a due process system for punishment referrals? (11 January 2008)
...that City Academy High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, became the first charter school in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on September 7, 1992? (21 January 2008)
...that the Garrison Union Free School in New York traces its origins back to 1793? (?? January 2008)
...that Salisbury Cathedral School was founded over 900 years ago by a saint? (28th January 2008)
...that the radio station of North Community High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota used to be the official broadcaster for traffic reports in the area? (31 January 2008)
...that Gregorio Perfecto High School is named after the politician, Gregorio Perfecto, who signed the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines with his own blood?
...that the rooflines of the newest school in the Cornwall Central School District mimics the surrounding hills in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York?
...that Gordon Parks High School, an alternative school, is named after the famous photographer, because he dropped out of education locally in Saint Paul, Minnesota?
...that taxpayers of Palenville, New York argued so bitterly over the costs of Rowena Memorial School that some called for it to be demolished?
...that Evergreen Lutheran High School lost its lease in DuPont, Washington in 1988 and has been looking for another site while sharing land at a local church?
... that despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot?
...the German School Guayaquil in Guayaquil, Ecuador is the only private school in the city that doesn't offer mandatory catholic religious education and has therefore students with the most diverse religious affiliations in the city?
... that Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey opened its doors to students in 1931 as the first U.S. public high school specializing in the visual and performing arts? (18 August 2008)
... that Holyhead High School, located on the Welsh island of Anglesey, was the first British comprehensive school? (19 August 2008)
... that Rebecca Adlington, British Olympic Gold swimmer, went to The Brunts School? (23 August 2008)
... that the Archdiocesan Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb, Croatia has an observatory (pictured) on school grounds? (30 August 2008)
... that Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School? (5 September 2008)
... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall, a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England? (13 September 2008)
... that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey, was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80, located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building? (17 September 2008)
... that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School, one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008? (18 September 2008)
... that Diocesan School for Girls students can download whiteboard notes to their laptops? (27 September 2008)
... that Schools Plus, an education policy proposed by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, was boycotted by 15 schools? (28 September 2008)
... that the Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton, a chartered middle school that requires students to learn three years of Latin and to study Literary classics, has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School? (29 September 2008)
... that the Holgate School in Nottinghamshire, England had a Khatchkar (pictured) installed in thanks by the Armenian Government for UK-funded Lord Byron School in Gyumri? (2 October 2008)
... that Babe Ruth reportedly signed one of his most lucrative New York Yankees' contracts at Jacob Ruppert's Eagles' Rest estate in Garrison, New York, now Saint Basil Academy? (22 February 2009)
... that a student at Clatskanie Middle/High School organized a statewide food drive in Oregon that earned the student a national award? (21 May 2009)
... that President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the design for a new elementary school in his native Hyde Park, New York? (28 May 2009)
... that the Japanese American internment during World War II cost Seattle's Lincoln High School the presidents of its two service clubs and the editor of its school newspaper? (28 May 2009)
... that the Charles Sumner School served as the first teachers college for African-Americans in the District of Columbia? (30 May 2009)
... that the Little Red Schoolhouse in Brunswick, New York served as a one-room schoolhouse from the 1830s until 1952? (24 June 2009)
... that Winnetka School District 36 was the subject of a 1919 educational experiment? (7 July 2009)
... that the now defunct Heritage Christian School in Hillsboro, Oregon, once held a chariot race? (19 July 2009)
... that Faith Bible High School in Hillsboro, Oregon, closed for a day after a student received a threatening message on AOL Instant Messenger? (8 September 2009)
... that although Paul W. Bryant High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is named for football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, a court order prevented the school from using "Bears" as its mascot? (15 September 2009)
... that City View was the first charter school in Hillsboro, Oregon, when it opened in 2004? (20 September 2009)
... that only 1% of students attending Oregon Connections Academy live within the school district? (21 September 2009)
... that Far Rockaway High School in Queens, whose alumni include three Nobel Prize laureates and Bernard Madoff, stopped accepting students in 2008 as part of a planned closure due to declining grades? (9 October 2009)
... that the Franklin Borough School District in rural New Jersey had a baseball field said to have been designed by Babe Ruth and local engineers to match the dimensions of the original Yankee Stadium? (16 October 2009)

[edit] Article grading

School articles are graded for quality based on the Assessment scale and for importance using the Release Version Criteria scale. For further information, visit the Assessment department.

[edit] WikiProject Schools articles by quality

[edit] WikiProject Schools articles by importance

[edit] Top-importance school articles

The following individual school articles (excluding templates, lists, categories, and general education articles) have so far been identified by the assessment team as being of top importance to the Schools Project:

Akademisches Gymnasium (Vienna), Austria
Auckland Grammar School, New Zealand
Bergen katedralskole, Norway
Boston Latin School, Massachusetts, USA
Chengdu Shishi High School, Chengdu, China
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Collegiate School (New York), USA
Collège Stanislas de Paris, France
Ecole Technique Officielle, Rwanda
Eton College, England
Galatasaray Lisesi, Turkey
Gordonstoun, Scotland
Groton School, Massachusetts, USA
Harrow School, England
Hotchkiss School, Connecticut, USA
Institut Le Rosey, Switzerland
Karachi Grammar School, Pakistan
King George V School, Hong Kong
Korean Minjok Leadership Academy, South Korea
La Martiniere College, parent page for a chain of schools in France and India
La Martiniere Lucknow, India
Lycée Henri-IV, France
Lycée Louis-le-Grand, France
Mang'u High School, Kenya
Melbourne High School (Victoria), Australia
Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík, Iceland
Oslo katedralskole, Norway
Phillips Academy, Massachusetts, USA
Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, USA
Prytanée National Militaire, France
Raffles Institution (Secondary), Singapore
Robert College, Turkey
Royal College Colombo, Sri Lanka
Rugby School, England
Scotch College, Melbourne, Australia
Shishi Middle School, China
St Patrick's High School, Karachi, Pakistan
Stuyvesant High School, New York, USA
Suankularb Wittayalai School, Thailand
Summerhill School, England
Sydney Grammar School, Australia
Taipei First Girls' High School, Taiwan
The Doon School, India
Thomasschule zu Leipzig, Germany
Upper Canada College, Toronto, Canada
Winchester College, England

[edit] Featured articles

These are school articles currently holding the status of Featured articles. They have been identified as some of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community.

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured article candidates

This section will highlight school articles that are currently nominated as feature articles. That is an article that is particularly well-written and complete. Articles in this list should be monitored closely and edited with care.

There are no current featured article candidates.

[edit] Featured list candidates

This section will highlight school lists that are currently nominated as featured lists. These lists should be monitored closely and edited with care.

There are no current featured list candidates.

[edit] Potential featured article candidates

This section will highlight a school article that can be recommended as a feature article. That is an article that is particularly well-written and complete. Please list an article that is close to this criteria so that everyone can edit away to bring it up to featured article quality and submit it for consideration as a featured article.

Balboa High School - Some WP:POV issues and missing information needs to be resolved.
Caulfield Grammar School
Garden City High School (Kansas)
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney
Preuss School
Westfield High School (Fairfax County, Virginia) - Minor citation issues need to be addressed among other things.

[edit] A class articles

Lethbridge Collegiate Institute

[edit] Good articles

These are school articles which hold the status of Good articles. They have been identified as well developed articles produced by the Wikipedia community.

Aquinas College, Perth
Arlington Senior High School
Balboa High School
Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Caulfield Grammar School - Former featured article, which was demoted on 14 April 2007.
City of London School
Dougherty Valley High School
DuPont Manual High School
Garden City High School (Kansas)
Gordon Parks High School
Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District
Johnson Senior High School (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Lane Technical College Prep High School
North Community High School
Port Charlotte High School, Florida
Preuss School
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney
Pūnana Leo, Hawaii
Robert College, Turkey
Roswell High School (Georgia)
Royal National College for the Blind, The
Stonyhurst College
Westfield High School (Fairfax County, Virginia)
Whitney High School (Rocklin, California)

[edit] Good article candidates

This section will highlight school articles that are currently nominated as good articles. That is an article that is particularly well-written and complete but may lack the length or breadth to be a featured article. Articles in this list should be monitored closely and edited with care.

Dhaka Residential Model College

[edit] Potential good article candidates

This section will highlight a school article that can be recommended as a good article. That is an article that is particularly well-written and complete but may lack the length or breadth to be a featured article. Please list an article that is close to this criteria so that everyone can edit away to bring it up to good article quality and submit it for consideration as a good article.

Auburn High School - Problems with dead links being used as references.
Broad Run High School - Demoted from GA on July 19 2009.
Bishop McGuinness High School (Oklahoma) - More expansion needed.
Bridgnorth Endowed School - A school article assessed as high importance which is now having its potential realised, requires some further work with structure.
Brunswick (Brittonkill) Central School District - Long and structured article, a few referencing and style issues.
Cinco Ranch High School - Some stylistic things needs to be sorted out, but the main concern is that the article is poorly referenced.
Charter School of Wilmington - More references needed and trivial information needs to be removed.
Dhaka Residential Model College - Some issues with style, format, and references.
Durham School of the Arts - Some issues with images and references need resolving.
Fenwick High School (Oak Park, Illinois) - Some image copyright and citation issues, the lead also needs improving.
Hasland Junior School - Good referencing and quite a bit of information, just needs expanding slightly.
Hopkins School - Former featured article demoted on 18 December 2007. More references and removal of trivial details is required.
Institut Le Rosey - Much improved since last attempt at gaining good article status. Further pictures of the school could be helpful. Also see GA review and peer review.
Jamaica College - Some issues with article structure and images, plus more expansion needed.
King's School, Ely - See peer review and latest GA review: has some prose/organizational issues. History needs to be re-written in chronological order; many excellent sources are available for doing so.
La Salle Green Hills - Needs to follow the Wikipedia:Manual of Style, and there are also some neutrality, prose quality, and citation issues.
Limavady Grammar School - Generally a well written article. If possible further expansion is needed.
Lubbock High School - Former good article, which was demoted on 9 June 2009.
Oak Park and River Forest High School - Some referencing issues remain.
Proviso East High School - Some content gaps and referencing issues.
Rossall School - See Talk:Rossall School/GA1
Scotch College, Perth - Demoted from GA on June 7 2009.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology - Issues with images need resolving, more should be added if possible.
Upper Canada College - Needs referencing issues to be resolved.
Wellington College, Berkshire - See Talk:Wellington College, Berkshire/GA1
Wesley College, Melbourne - See Talk:Wesley_College,_Melbourne#To_Do_List...
Wheaton Warrenville South High School - Long article but some referencing issues remaining.

[edit] School articles recommended for deletion

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Schools for a current list of schools which have been nominated for deletion.
See also Wikipedia:Watch/schoolwatch/Schools for deletion archive for a historic listing of school deletion debates and the category for School articles to be merged

[edit] Article requests

The article requests department helps co-ordinate the creation of missing articles within the scope of the project. To request an article be created please visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article requests#Requests.

[edit] Articles in need of emergency, short term attention

Shortcuts: WP:WPSCH#E WP:WPSCHOOLS#E

James Logan High School, besides needing a fair amount of cleanup, repeated edits of a less than optimal nature from uncommunicative IP's. – Zedla (talk) 00:19, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Lakewood School District (Washington), needs a copyedit and needs to be expanded. ~~ ĈőмρǖтέŗĠύʎ890100 (t ↔ Ĕ ↔ ώ) ^{Review me!} 23:55, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Brigidine College
SMK Semera Nominated for CSD and normal deletion. --Mark Chung (talk) 03:44, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Chandigarh Engineering College pulled from db-spam queue; anyone want to fix it? - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 17:08, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Also International British School of Bucharest and Hartlepool Sixth Form College. - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 03:11, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Ugh, pulled this one out of the db-spam queue but it needs real work to survive, it's K-12: Bearspaw christian school - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 03:50, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

I removed all the overly spammy text that was likely copied from somewhere else, which was all but 2 sentences and added a cat. Could still use some serious help though.--Terrillja _talk 03:55, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Holy Family Catholic Academy: Declining db-spam deletion and PRODding. The name is a common name for schools, so it's hard to assess Google hits. Most elementary and middle schools are not considered notable on Wikipedia, and there's no assertion of notability here. Does prodding and reporting here sound like a good plan in this case? - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 03:34, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Desborough School, is in need of more sources, "wikifying", further history with pictures to compliment it. All are welcome to have a gom particularly experts on this wikiproject. It would be greatly appreciated. {Jonzo1990 (talk) 21:05, 31 May 2009 (UTC)}
I've tried to do some work on Austin Friars St Monica's School - after a prior revert. Perhaps someone can take a look and give us a hand to remove the spamminess of it? Ta. Blue Square Thing (talk) 12:49, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Article alerts

Proposed deletion

25 Nov 2009 – PROD tag removed from Ledford Middle School (talk).
25 Nov 2009 – Belfast Community Circus School (talk) proposed for deletion by Rodhullandemu.
24 Nov 2009 – St Mary's CBS (The Green) (disambiguation) (talk) proposed for deletion by BrownHairedGirl.

Articles for deletion

26 Nov 2009 – East Troy High School (talk) was kept; see discussion.
24 Nov 2009 – Ledford Middle School (talk) nominated for deletion by Tedder; see discussion.
16 Nov 2009 – List of schools in Harris County, Texas (talk) nominated for deletion by Karanacs; see discussion.
16 Nov 2009 – Ballyclare Secondary School (talk) was kept; see discussion.
13 Nov 2009 – 2009 Richmond High School gang rape (talk) was kept; see discussion.

Featured article candidates

26 Nov 2009 – Amador Valley High School (talk) is promoted to FA status.

Good article nominations

13 Nov 2009 – Trinity College, Perth (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Kostanza.
3 Nov 2009 – William A. Shine Great Neck South High School (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Zeleb.

Did you know

20 Nov 2009 – A fact from Hill Military Academy (talk) appeared on the main page.

Other news

23 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
19 Oct 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
17 Oct 2009 – A new database dump is available.

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[edit] Participants

The participants list is now on its own page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Participants.

[edit] Templates

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[edit] Article talk pages

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