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Cottage Grove High School

high school in Oregon, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5175512 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cottage Grove High School is a public high school located in Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States.

History

The new school building, opened in 2003, replacing the old high school building which had been built in 1939 and held its first classes in 1940. The school was originally located at 1000 Taylor Avenue.

Academics

In 2008, 92% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 195 students, 180 graduated, nine dropped out, three received a modified diploma, and three were still in high school the following year.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cottage Grove High School” as high school in Oregon, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 1939, 1940, 1000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940. The account is most persuasive where Cottage, Grove and High can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as high school in Oregon, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5175512. Authority coordinates are 43.786, -123.070. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003, 1939, 1940 and 1000.

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

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Cottage Grove High School”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Cottage Grove High School primary sources, Cottage Grove High School archive and Cottage 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

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  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “Cottage Grove High School” 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.