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Mount Horeb High School

high school in Mount Horeb, Dane County, Wisconsin

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 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ39057285 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mount Horeb High School is a public high school located in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, and is a part of the Mount Horeb Area School District. Mount Horeb High School serves 776 students in Mount Horeb, and Blue Mounds. The High School's mascot is the Vikings. Cody Lundquist is the principal as of 2020.

The school was opened in 1919. Its current building was built in 1961.

Academics

The high school began an International Baccalaureate program in the 2025-2026 school year.

Athletics

Mount Horeb's athletic teams are nicknamed the Vikings, and they have been members of the Badger Conference since 2001.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mount Horeb High School” as high school in Mount Horeb, Dane County, Wisconsin. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mount, Horeb and High.

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—2020, 1919, 1961, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mount, Horeb and High providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mount Horeb High School”, the useful work is to connect “high school in Mount Horeb, Dane County, Wisconsin” 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 Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q39057285. Authority coordinates are 43.005, -89.729. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1919, 1961 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mount Horeb 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.