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Olentangy Liberty High School

high school in Ohio, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ7086388 ↗
Source-derived summary

Olentangy Liberty High School is a public comprehensive high school located in Powell, Ohio. The school was established in 2003 and is the second of four high schools in the Olentangy Local School District. Olentangy Liberty was rated "Excellent" on the 2013/2014 State of Ohio report card. In 2013, the school received a gold medal ranking as the fifth best high school in the state of Ohio and the 175th best high school in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report. In 2014, the school was ranked as one of America's most challenging high schools by The Washington Post.

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The public source identifies “Olentangy Liberty High School” as high school in Ohio, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Olentangy, Liberty and High.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Olentangy, Liberty and High providing the first useful test.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7086388. Authority coordinates are 40.198, -83.099. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2013 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Olentangy Liberty 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.