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Inglemoor High School

high school in Kenmore, King County, Washington

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6032578
Source-derived summary

Inglemoor High School is a public high school located in Kenmore, Washington, United States. It was built in 1964, serving approximately 1600 students in grades 9-12.

Inglemoor's feeder middle schools are Kenmore Middle School and Northshore Middle School. Its feeder elementary schools are Arrowhead, Kenmore, Moorlands, and Woodmoor Elementary Schools.

History

Inglemoor High School is the only high school in Kenmore. In 1903, Kenmore School District 141 was established. With a schoolhouse for the children of a nearby mill company's workers in 1914. It cost $1,200, including a large bell in the steeple. It had an above-ground basement and foot-thick concrete walls.

Until 1965 Bothell High School served all high school citizens in Kenmore (and the general Northshore area).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Inglemoor High School” is high school in Kenmore, King County, Washington. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Inglemoor, High and School, 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1600, 1903, 1914—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965. For this dossier, Inglemoor, High and School is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “high school in Kenmore, King County, Washington” 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 Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6032578. Authority coordinates are 47.741, -122.222. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1600, 1903 and 1914.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Inglemoor High School”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Inglemoor High School primary sources, Inglemoor High School archive and Inglemoor 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 “Inglemoor High School”?
  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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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Inglemoor 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.