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Mascoutah Community Unit School District

School district in Illinois, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6782899 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mascoutah Community Unit School District #19 is a school district headquartered in Mascoutah, Illinois, United States.

The district serves Mascoutah and some unincorporated areas in St. Clair County, including Scott Air Force Base. The district also serves some parts of Belleville, Illinois such as The Orchards. The district has three elementary schools which provide Kindergarten through 5th grade, a middle school that provides 6th through 8th grades, and a high school for 9th through 12th grades.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mascoutah Community Unit School District” is school district in Illinois, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mascoutah, Community and Unit, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 76-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, Mascoutah, Community and Unit is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “school district in Illinois, United States” 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 Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6782899. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

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.

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.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

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 “Mascoutah Community Unit School District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mascoutah Community Unit School District primary sources, Mascoutah Community Unit School District archive and Mascoutah 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 “Mascoutah Community Unit School District”?
  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 “Mascoutah Community Unit 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.