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Hoxie USD 412

public school district in Hoxie, Kansas

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ55106631 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hoxie USD 412 is a public unified school district headquartered in Hoxie, Kansas, United States. The district includes the communities of Hoxie, Jennings (south of highway 383), Leoville, Seguin, Studley, Tasco, Allison, Dresden (south of highway 383), rural areas southwest of the Clayton (south of highway 383), and other nearby rural areas.

Schools

The school district operates the following schools:

Hoxie Junior-Senior High School

Hoxie Elementary School

History

In 2006, Prairie Heights USD 295 underwent a dissolution, a majority of students moved to Hoxie USD 412, the rest to Oberlin USD 294.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hoxie USD 412” as public school district in Hoxie, Kansas. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hoxie, public and school.

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—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hoxie, public and school providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Hoxie USD 412”, the useful work is to connect “public school district in Hoxie, Kansas” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 May 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q55106631. Authority coordinates are 39.356, -100.440. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.

Critical limits

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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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Hoxie USD 412”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Hoxie USD 412 primary sources, Hoxie USD 412 archive and Hoxie 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hoxie USD 412” 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.