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Anacortes School District

School district in Washington state, USA

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ4750706
Source-derived summary

Anacortes School District No. 103 is a public school district in Skagit County, Washington and serves the city of Anacortes.

Justin Irish is the superintendent of the school district.

According to the school's official website, the school district has 400 staff members and 2,400 enrolled students.

Schools

High schools

Anacortes High School

Notable Alumni - Craig Bartlett, Rien Long, Phil Elverum, Bret Lunsford of "Beat Happening"

Cap Sante High School (Alternative school)

Middle schools

Anacortes Middle School

Elementary schools

Fidalgo Elementary School K-5

Island View Elementary School K-5

Mount Erie Elementary School K-5

Whitney Elementary School Preschool and Kindergarten

Special Schools and Programs

Anacortes Home Education Partnership

References

External links

Anacortes School District No.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Anacortes School District” is school district in Washington state, USA. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Anacortes, School and District, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 114-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Anacortes, School and District is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “school district in Washington state, USA” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4750706. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Anacortes School District primary sources, Anacortes School District archive and Anacortes research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from Anacortes 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.