Wikipedia:Notability (high schools)

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This page in a nutshell: All high schools can be assumed to be notable.

There is almost always suitable sourced material available for high schools-- and our practice is to consistently accept them rather than argue about each one, since it will almost certainly be notable.

Substantial coverage can be found for any high school, because a high school is significant in its community. We delete not because an article is not sourced, but if sources are not available. For high schools, there are always sufficient available to meet WP:N.

It is generally trivial to find reliable sources for expansion of high schools.

High schools generally have secondary sources written about them. That's why they are almost always kept. Sometimes high school articles don't have those sources placed in the article yet. That's a reason for article improvement, not deletion for notability reasons. All high schools can be shown to be in fact the subject of secondary sources which are beyond the scope of "trivial" (passing mention, directory listing, etc.).

We NEVER delete high school articles on the basis of notability, because through an exhaustive series of attempts at doing so, over a very long period of time, EVERY high school inevitably is found to easily meet the primary retention criteria of WP:N. High schools are the sort of a central institution within a community that inherantly generates news, and as such through a sufficient search of archives can be shown to be notable. It is a matter of convenience to preassume them to be notable to avoid unnecessary deletion discussions that NEVER result in deletion. There is ample precedent to summarily dismiss deletion nominations for high schools.