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Clatskanie School District

school district in Oregon, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5128591 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Clatskanie School District (6J) is a two-school public school district in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. It serves the city of Clatskanie and the surrounding area.

Within Columbia County, it includes Clatskanie. Within Clatsop County the district includes Westport.

Demographics

In the 2009 school year, the district had six students classified as homeless by the Department of Education, or 0.7% of students in the district.

Schools

Clatskanie Elementary School (CES) serves kindergarten through sixth grade students

Clatskanie Middle/High School (CMHS) combines middle school and high school and serves seventh grade through twelfth grade.

At one time, there was a middle school and a high school, but they have merged into one school. The mascot for CMHS is the tigers, CES's mascot is the cougars, the former CMS mascot was the eagles.

References

External links

Official website

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Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Clatskanie School District” as school district in Oregon, USA. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Clatskanie, School and District can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as school district in Oregon, USA. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5128591. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Clatskanie School District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Clatskanie School District primary sources, Clatskanie School District archive and Clatskanie 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 “Clatskanie School District”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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This entry incorporates text from “Clatskanie School District” 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.