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A. C. Reynolds High School

public high school in Asheville, North Carolina, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4647622 ↗
Source-derived summary

A. C. Reynolds High School is a public secondary school located in Asheville, North Carolina. The school accommodates grades 9-12 and is a part of the Buncombe County Schools System. Its mascot is a Rocket.

History

The school was named after Alonzo Carlton "A.C." Reynolds (1870–1953), who had a 53 year career in education.

Honors

A. C. Reynolds High School was honored as a National Blue Ribbon School in 2002.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “A. C. Reynolds High School” as public high school in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1870, 1953, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955. The account is most persuasive where Reynolds, High and School can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as public high school in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4647622. Authority coordinates are 35.546, -82.477. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1870, 1953 and 2002.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “A. C. Reynolds High School”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow A. C. Reynolds High School primary sources, A. C. Reynolds High School archive and Reynolds research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “A. C. Reynolds High School”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “A. C. Reynolds High School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.