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Cheney High School (Kansas)

public high school in Cheney, Kansas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ52687613 ↗
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Cheney High School is a public high school in Cheney, Kansas, United States. It is operated by Cheney USD 268 school district. The school is located at 800 North Marshall Street. The school mascot is the cardinal and the school colors are red and blue.

History

Plans for building a high school in Cheney were announced in 1907.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Cheney High School (Kansas)” as public high school in Cheney, Kansas. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cheney, High and School.

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—1907—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cheney, High and School providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q52687613. Authority coordinates are 37.634, -97.782. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1907.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cheney High School (Kansas)” 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.