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St. Vincent–St. Mary High School

Catholic high school in Akron, Ohio, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ7592124 ↗
Source-derived summary

St. Vincent–St. Mary High School is a four-year private, college preparatory Catholic high school in Akron, Ohio, United States. It is sponsored by the Society of Mary and is associated with the Diocese of Cleveland. As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 638 students.

History

The current St. Vincent–St. Mary High School was formed by the merger of St. Vincent and St. Mary High Schools in 1972.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “St. Vincent–St. Mary High School” as catholic high school in Akron, Ohio, USA. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972. The account is most persuasive where Vincent, Mary and High can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as catholic high school in Akron, Ohio, USA. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7592124. VIAF identifies the subject as 148159432. The Library of Congress control number is no2010014419. Authority coordinates are 41.089, -81.522. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 1972.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. 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

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “St. Vincent–St. Mary High School”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow St. Vincent–St. Mary High School primary sources, St. Vincent–St. Mary High School archive and Vincent 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 “St. Vincent–St. Mary High School”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “St. Vincent–St. Mary 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.