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Abilene USD 435

school in Abilene, Kansas, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ24765515 ↗
Source-derived summary

Abilene USD 435 is a public unified school district headquartered in Abilene, Kansas, United States. The district includes the communities of Abilene, Talmage, and nearby rural areas.

Schools

The school district operates the following schools:

Abilene High School (9-12)

Abilene Middle School (6-8)

Eisenhower Elementary (4-5)

McKinley Intermediate (2-3)

Kennedy Primary (PreK-1)

In the fall pupils in high schools may pick cross-country, tennis, volleyball and football as sports activities, in winter basketball and wrestling, in spring they may choose tennis, baseball, softball, golf and track.

In middle schools, football, cross-country and volleyball is available year-round.

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“Abilene USD 435” enters the record as school in Abilene, Kansas, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Abilene, school and Kansas can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 95-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Abilene, school and Kansas.
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Why this record matters

“Abilene USD 435” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Abilene, school and Kansas provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q24765515. Authority coordinates are 38.917, -97.215. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Abilene USD 435” 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.