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Wooddale High School

high school in Tennessee, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ16885256 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wooddale High School is a high school in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Wooddale is a part of Shelby County Schools. Their mascot is the Cardinal. The school is located at 5151 Scottsdale Avenue.

Notable alumni include former NFL defensive tackle Dontari Poe.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 42-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wooddale, High and School 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 “Wooddale High School”, the useful work is to connect “high school in Tennessee, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16885256. Authority coordinates are 35.057, -89.892. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wooddale 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.