Sedan High School

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First Sedan High School building, used as gymnasium in 1923

Sedan Junior and Senior High School is a public middle and high school in Sedan, Kansas, United States.[1][2] It is the sole high school operated by Chautauqua County USD 286 school district, and serves students of grades 7 to 12. The school colors are blue and white and the school mascot is the blue devil.[3]

History[]

Sedan High School, 1923

Sedan High School graduated its first class of five students in 1889.[4][5] By 1949, the school had graduated a total of 946 students in its first fifty years.[6] In the 2019–2020 school year, there were 163 students enrolled in grades 7–12, and a student to teacher ratio of 11.81.[1]

In 1900, the hardwood floors of the first school building were replaced,[7] and a new school building was built in 1904.[8]

The curriculum in 1902 consisted of "Virgil, Trigonometry and Political Economy... Caesar, Geometry, Political Economy and Chemistry".[5]

By 1923, The Sedan Times-Star reported, "In our school district, No. 44, we have invested in buildings and equipment approximately $100,000.00 and our operating expense is from $35,000.00 to $40,000.00 per year."[9] The paper also noted the school's membership in the North Central Association of high schools that had been formed in 1895.[9]

A Works Progress Administration project took place at the school in 1937.[10]

In 1960, a $380,000 bond issue was approved to construct a new building. The contract for the building went to H. D. Perkins Construction Co., Bartlesville, Oklahoma, with a bid of $181,229.[11]

The attorney for Unified School District 286 requested an opinion of the state's attorney general in 1994 to determine whether the school mascot, the blue devil, was a religious symbol in violation of the U.S. Constitution's First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibiting establishment of a state religion. Attorney General Bob Stephan published a legal opinion that the mascot was unlikely to be perceived in a religious context.[12]

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References[]

  1. ^ a b "School Detail for Sedan High". nces.ed.gov. 2018. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  2. ^ "Sedan High School (KS) Home - MaxPreps". MaxPreps.com.
  3. ^ "Relax, Red Devils". The Iola Register. 1994-06-27. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  4. ^ "Commencement Exercises of Sedan High School; graduation speeches". The Weekly Times-Star. 1890-05-09. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-10-31. We, the class of '90 appear before you as the second graduating class of our schools.
  5. ^ a b "History of Sedan High School". The Freeman's Lance. 1902-01-23. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  6. ^ "Fifty years ago". The Pawnee Courier-Dispatch. 1939-05-25. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  7. ^ "Floors of high school building replaced". The Freeman's Lance. 1900-07-12. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  8. ^ "New school building". The Freeman's Lance. 1904-11-11. p. 5.
  9. ^ a b "Sedan is justly proud of her schools". The Sedan Times-Star. 1923-11-15. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
  10. ^ "WPA men transferred". The Advertiser-Journal. 1937-02-25. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  11. ^ "Let contracts for Sedan High School". The Ottawa Herald. 1960-03-19. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  12. ^ "Sedan Blue Devil gets green light". Council Grove Republican. 1994-06-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-03.

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Coordinates: 37°07′46″N 96°10′59″W / 37.1295°N 96.1831°W / 37.1295; -96.1831

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