Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Ohio school districts)

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Ohio school district articles should take the form "DISTRICT NAME DISTRICT TYPE School District, COUNTY NAME County, Ohio", e.g. Princeton City School District, Hamilton County, Ohio. The county should be the one assigned to it in the Secretary of State's Ohio Municipal, Township, and School Board Roster and by the Ohio Department of Education, even if it extends into other counties.

[edit] Rationale

1. It incorporates the full legal name of the district
2. There are some districts which have the same name, but are a differing type, e.g. Fairfield City is in Butler County, Fairfield Local is in Highland County
3. It distinguishes the districts with the same exact name, e.g. there are two Lakota Local School Districts
4. It enables users to find out approximately where a district is just from its title.

[edit] Types of School Districts

There are three kinds of general, K-12 school districts in Ohio:

1. City School Districts
2. Local School Districts
3. Exempted Village School Districts

There are also "Vocational School Districts" that provide vocational instruction and are cooperatives of the general K-12 districts. These articles should follow the form specified above.

[edit] Comments

See also: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Ohio school districts)

I would like to note that the SoS's names for districts do not match their names given by the DoE. See Cleveland Municipal School District in the Roster. Rkevins82 18:00, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Some districts use a popular form such as Cleveland or Cincinnati ("Cincinnati Public Schools"), but the legal name will be Cleveland City School Distict or something similar. PedanticallySpeaking 18:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Look Cleveland up in the roster and then look it up on the ODE Interactive Local Report Card - they are different. Rkevins82 23:17, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

The names in the Roster are the legal and official names and should be used. Alternative names might warrant redirects, e.g. Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio.

Cleveland is unique because its school district is under the municipal government rather than a separate government as in the other 610 local-level school districts. -- Mwalcoff 02:01, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

The "Roster" has legal names which do not include "School District" - so why should they be included? Also, the State Auditor uses Municipal, the Ohio Department of Education [1], the US Census [2], the Ohio Department of Transportation [3], and the Ohio Supreme Court (legal enough?)[4]. Why not use the name the district [5] and all of the above agree on? Rkevins82 22:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)