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Casper Classical Academy

public middle school in Casper, Wyoming, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ5049082
Source-derived summary

Casper Classical Academy (CCA) is a public middle school in Casper, Wyoming. The school is part of the Natrona County School District.

CCA offers a classical education in a small school setting, with the current principal being Marie Puryear. It was founded in 1996 as an expansion of Fort Caspar Academy and serves about 175 students in grades 6–8. In 2005, CCA received the No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School Award, based on standardized state assessment scores.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Casper Classical Academy” as public middle school in Casper, Wyoming, US. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996. The account is most persuasive where Casper, Classical and Academy 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 middle school in Casper, Wyoming, US. 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 Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5049082. Authority coordinates are 42.841, -106.300. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 2005.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. 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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  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Casper Classical Academy”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Casper Classical Academy primary sources, Casper Classical Academy archive and Casper 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.

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  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from Casper Classical Academy” 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.