Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools

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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.

Contents 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 6.1 Featured lists 6.2 Featured article candidates 6.3 Featured list candidates 6.4 Potential featured article candidates 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 Collaboration of the month 10.1 Current collaborations 10.2 Suggestions for next month 11 Articles in need of emergency, short term attention 12 Participants 13 Templates 13.1 Article talk pages 13.2 Article namespace 13.3 User namespace 13.4 Infobox templates 13.5 General infoboxes 13.6 Country/Region-specific infoboxes 13.7 Other templates 14 See also 14.1 Similar 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 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 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)

[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:

• Auckland Grammar School, New Zealand
• Bergen katedralskole, Norway
• Boston Latin School, Massachusetts, USA
• Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Collège Stanislas de Paris, France
• The Doon School, India
• 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
• 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, 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
• Taipei First Girls' High School, Taiwan
• The Collegiate School, New York, USA
• 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.

• Baltimore City College
• History of Baltimore City College
• Stuyvesant High School
• Plano Senior High School

[edit] Featured lists

• List of schools in Northland, New Zealand
• List of schools in Marlborough, New Zealand
• List of Boston Latin School alumni

[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
• 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
• Auburn High School
• Balboa High School
• Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans, Louisiana)
• Broad Run High School
• Caulfield Grammar School - Former featured article which was demoted on 14 April 2007.
• Gordon Parks High School
• Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District
• Johnson Senior High School (St. Paul, Minnesota)
• Lane Technical College Prep High School
• Lubbock High School
• North Community High School
• Port Charlotte High School, Florida
• Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney
• Pūnana Leo, Hawaii
• Robert College, Turkey
• Roswell High School (Georgia)
• Royal National College for the Blind, The
• Scotch College, Perth
• Stonyhurst College
• The Preuss School UCSD
• Westfield High School (Fairfax County, Virginia)

[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.

There are no current good article candidates.

[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.

• Brunswick (Brittonkill) Central School District - currently under peer review; please consider commenting!
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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...

[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] Collaboration of the month

Shortcuts: WP:WPSCH#C WP:WPSCHOOLS#C

Each month one article in each country/region may receive shared attention. Please feel free to update this yourself if a name has been here for more than a month and you wish to bump up another article. This section was last updated on 2009-01-19.

[edit] Current collaborations

• Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires A very important school in Argentina with two Nobel prize winners, four Argentinian presidents and Lalo Schiffrin amongst its alumni. Currently a poor article devoid of references. The school deserves much better. Many of the sources will probably be in Spanish. Can anyone help? Dahliarose (talk) 14:40, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
• City Montessori School, Lucknow, India. This is the largest school in the world with an astonishing 33,000 pupils currently on the roll. It was also the first school in the world to be awarded the UNESCO Peace Prize for Education. The present article is very meagre. Dahliarose (talk) 09:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
• International School of Geneva in the Lake Geneva region, Switzerland. This is one of the most important International Schools of Switzerland and is also the school that invented the IB. It is one of Switzerland's oldest non-boarding schools (having been founded in 1924). The current article needs better style and more references. Booksworm ^{Do you speak Orange?} 16:46, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
• Tech Valley High School - I started this article the other day; it is currently making rounds through DYK. It is a unique, project-based learning school that recently opened in New York's Capital District. Each student receives a laptop upon entry. The school chooses from applicants from 47 component school districts in the area. Anyone may apply and the final decision on who gets to go from which school is random; so even if a student as an IEP, the student is still eligible. This needs expansion and is important because it is one of a very small breed and is instrumental in defining the educational system of the 21st century. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 00:16, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions for next month

Taipei American School - an international school with some content, but severely lacking references.

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

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• 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)
• Raa Middle School. A middle school. Possibly not worth saving. --Eastmain (talk) 21:58, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
• Brigidine College
• SMK Semera Nominated for CSD and normal deletion. --Mark Chung (talk) 03:44, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

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

[edit] Templates

To further spread recognition of this project and create more consistent messages, use these templates.

[edit] Article talk pages

{{WPSchools}} is for all schools that are part of this WikiProject. This adds articles to the appropriate categories affiliated with this Project.

	This article is related to WikiProject Schools, an attempt to write quality articles about schools around the world. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page.
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• To request photos for Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools, use {{reqphoto|of=geographic location}}, and substitute the location name for "geographic location".

[edit] Article namespace

{{cleanup-school}} is for articles that need cleanup and/or considerable work.

To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this article may require cleanup. More verifiable information on this school is needed. Guidelines and editing help are available.

{{merge-school}} is for articles that need considerable expansion or merging to their subjects' respective locality or school district articles.

It has been suggested that this school-related article be merged to the appropriate locality article. It may not meet Wikipedia's standards of verifiability or notability, it may not feature multiple independent reliable sources, or it may be a short entry that provides only directory-style information about the school. Please consider merging any verifiable information or expanding this article to meet these concerns. Further information might be found on this article's talk page. Guidelines and editing help are available. This school-related article is related to WikiProject Schools.

[edit] User namespace

{{User WikiProject Schools}} is for Wikipedians who want to place a userbox on their page.

{{Schools Barnstar}} is an award for the project. Add {{subst:Schools Barnstar|your message ~~~~}} to the talk page of the user you wish to award it to. The Schools Barnstar is designed to recognize any editor for their efforts to improve and develop primary and secondary school-related articles, including their contributions to school and education articles.

		The Schools Barnstar
		Message Example (talk) 09:40, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox templates

See also: Category:Education infobox templates

Note: None of these templates should be subst'd

[edit] General infoboxes

• {{Infobox School}}
• {{Infobox Law School}}
• {{Infobox School Club}}
• {{Infobox School District}}
• {{Infobox Secondary school}}
• {{Infobox Cadet College}}

[edit] Country/Region-specific infoboxes

• {{Infobox Aust school}}
• {{Infobox Aust school private}}
• {{Infobox Education in Canada}}
• {{Infobox Education in UAE}}
• {{Infobox Irish school}}
• {{Infobox Malaysia School}}
• {{Infobox NZ school}}
• {{Infobox Singapore School}}
• {{Infobox UK school}}
  • {{Infobox Scottish Secondary School}}
• {{Infobox Cadet College (Pakistan)}}

[edit] Other templates

• Country flags for infoboxes

[edit] See also

[edit] Similar Wikiprojects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject School Years
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Education
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Canada
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Australia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative education