Sedan High School

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Sedan Junior/Senior High School
Address
Sedan High School
416 East Elm Street

Sedan
,
Kansas
67361

United States
Coordinates 37°07′46″N96°10′59″W / 37.1295°N 96.1831°W / 37.1295; -96.1831
Information
School type Public, High School
School districtChautauqua County USD 286
CEEB code 172720 [1]
Teaching staff18.50 (FTE) [2]
Grades 6 to 12
Gender coed
Enrollment199 (2022-2023) [2]
Student to teacher ratio10.76 [2]
Campus type Rural
Communities served Sedan, Peru, Elgin, Chautauqua

Sedan Junior and Senior High School is a public middle and high school in Sedan, Kansas, United States. [3] [4] It is the sole high school operated by Chautauqua County USD 286 school district, and serves students of grades 7 to 12. The school colors are blue and white and the school mascot is the blue devil. [5]

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History

First Sedan High School building, used as gymnasium in 1923 Old Sedan HS - 1923 01.png
First Sedan High School building, used as gymnasium in 1923
Sedan High School, 1923 Sedan HS - 1923 02.png
Sedan High School, 1923

Sedan High School graduated its first class of five students in 1889. [6] [7] In 1900, the hardwood floors of the first school building were replaced, [8] and a new school building was built in 1904. [9] The curriculum in 1902 for the "A Class" consisted of "Geometry, Physics, General History, Shakespeare, Cicero, Bookeeping, Shorthand, Commercial Law, Penmanship, Typewriting" during the first term, then "Geometry, Physics, Political Economy, Virgil, Bookeeping, Shorthand, Dictation, Penmanship, Typewriting" during the second term. [7]

By 1923, The Sedan Times-Star reported, "In our school district, No. 44, we have invested in buildings and equipment approximately $100,000.00 and our operating expense is from $35,000.00 to $40,000.00 per year." [10] The paper also noted the school's membership in the North Central Association of high schools that had been formed in 1895. [10]

A Works Progress Administration project took place at the school in 1937. [11]

By 1949, the school had graduated a total of 946 students in its first fifty years. [12]

In 1960, a $380,000 bond issue was approved to construct a new building. The contract for the building went to H. D. Perkins Construction Co., Bartlesville, Oklahoma, with a bid of $181,229. [13]

The attorney for Unified School District 286 requested an opinion of the state's attorney general in 1994 to determine whether the school mascot, the blue devil, was a religious symbol in violation of the U.S. Constitution's First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibiting establishment of a state religion. Attorney General Bob Stephan published a legal opinion that the mascot was unlikely to be perceived in a religious context. [14]

In the 2019–2020 school year, there were 163 students enrolled in grades 7–12, and a student to teacher ratio of 11.81. [3]

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  3. 1 2 "School Detail for Sedan High". nces.ed.gov. 2018. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
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  5. ↑ "Relax, Red Devils". The Iola Register. 1994-06-27. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  6. ↑ "Commencement Exercises of Sedan High School; graduation speeches". The Weekly Times-Star. 1890-05-09. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-10-31. We, the class of '90 appear before you as the second graduating class of our schools.
  7. 1 2 "History of Sedan High School". The Freeman's Lance. 1902-01-23. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  8. ↑ "Floors of high school building replaced". The Freeman's Lance. 1900-07-12. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  9. ↑ "New school building". The Freeman's Lance. 1904-11-11. p. 5.
  10. 1 2 "Sedan is justly proud of her schools". The Sedan Times-Star. 1923-11-15. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
  11. ↑ "WPA men transferred". The Advertiser-Journal. 1937-02-25. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  12. ↑ "Fifty years ago". The Pawnee Courier-Dispatch. 1939-05-25. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  13. ↑ "Let contracts for Sedan High School". The Ottawa Herald. 1960-03-19. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  14. ↑ "Sedan Blue Devil gets green light". Council Grove Republican. 1994-06-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
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