The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Keep Notable per the Blue Ribbon Award. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 01:56, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The article does not assert notability of this school. No secondary sources are given. It therefore fails WP:ORG. Notability warning was added last September; no major changes since then. Sent here as part of the Notability Wikiproject --B. Wolterding 18:25, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak delete I'm always somewhat reluctant to favor deleting school articles but I haven't really found any sources that assert notability and since this is a private school, there isn't an obvious article to merge the little content there is into. Seed 2.0 19:06, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Delete. I agree with Seed. Most hits I got were school rating sites, nothing suggesting notability. CharacterZero | Speak 23:14, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete schools are not notable. Cedars 23:39, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep All school districts are notable; Many high schools are notable; some elementary schools are notable. This school is one of the small fraction of schools nationwide that have been selected for recognition by the Blue Ribbon Schools Program, the highest award that an American school can receive. As modified the article makes explicit and supported claims of notability. Alansohn 04:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  The bolding probably isn't necessary but in light of those new cites, I'm changing my vote to keep. -- Seed 2.0 10:05, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- Butseriouslyfolks 05:26, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I also went ahead and added a bit about this Reggio Emilia approach that the school's website talks about. I can't exactly tell how pervasive this educational philosophy is, but we do have an article about it. I'm not sure if this adds to notability in any way, but it marginally helps the article. I also agree that the Blue Ribbon helps out. Even though winning the award 20 years ago isn't the most compelling example of notoriety, it is certainly a start. So, again following User:Seed 2.0's lead, I'm inclined to change to a weak keep, though I'd like to see a little more work done on it. CharacterZero | Speak 17:07, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep because of the Blue Ribbon. Don't matter how old it is. --Butseriouslyfolks 20:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Blue Ribbon school. TerriersFan 02:24, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

*Delete Being a Blue Ribbon School (along with the other 500,000) does not grant notability. Delete as Non-Notable. --TREYWiki 00:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - Please don't quote misleading figures. In 1996 there were 3,000 schools and since then around 300 per year have been added. Blue Ribbon schools are about the top 5% of schools. TerriersFan 00:51, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Reply Sorry to bother you with the facts, but the total number of schools in the United States is significantly fewer than 500,000, let alone the number of schools granted the nation's highest honor for a school. Your (mis)understanding of the numbers is off by a whopping two orders of magnitude from reality. A vote in an AfD -- to delete or keep -- should be based on Wikipedia policy, as well as a basic understanding of the facts. Alansohn 02:40, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.