Crane Union High School
high school in Oregon, United States
Crane Union High School is a public high school in Crane, Oregon, United States. It is a boarding school that serves students from a large geographic area.
Its district is known as the Harney County Union High School District 1J, and covers much of Harney County.
In 1976 it was the only American public boarding high school operated by a local school district.
History
It opened in 1918. It moved to Crane circa 1920 after initially being in Lawen. The dormitory began operations in 1931. The Harney County communities chose to have a centralized high school with a boarding facility instead of having multiple high school students at one-room schoolhouses.
By 1950 numerous magazines and other works of journalism had articles written about Crane Union, and education professionals from other states visited the school. At the time, girls only wore trousers when not in instructional time; during that time skirts and dresses were allowed for female students.
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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 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5182055. Authority coordinates are 43.417, -118.575. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 3 carry qualifiers and 2 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 1918, 1920 and 1931.
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