Vancouver Public Schools
school district in Washington, USA
Vancouver Public Schools is a school district in Vancouver, Washington covering 58 square miles (150.2 km2) in Clark County.
Boundary
The district includes a section of Vancouver. It also includes Felida, Lake Shore, Minnehaha, most of Hazel Dell and Salmon Creek, and portions of Barberton and Mount Vista.
Schools
The district has 36 schools:
21 elementary schools (PK-Grade 5)
6 middle schools (Grades 6-8)
5 high schools (Grades 9 to 12)
Vancouver High School stood for many years at the intersection of Columbia and West Fourth Plain Boulevard, but was closed in the mid-1950s, with students divided between two new schools: Fort Vancouver High School and Hudson's Bay High School.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Vancouver Public Schools” as school district in Washington, USA. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as school district in Washington, USA. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7914240. Authority coordinates are 45.643, -122.627. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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
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Three-step research path
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- Expand the search: follow Vancouver Public Schools primary sources, Vancouver Public Schools archive and Vancouver research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “Vancouver Public Schools” 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.