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I've proposed a standard form for naming articles on Ohio school districts: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Ohio school districts), which could easily be extended to apply to districts in other states. I'd welcome some feedback on this. PedanticallySpeaking 16:46, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
After spending much time trying to add district names by county, I decided to find a comprehensive list somewhere as there are over 1000 districts in California. I finally used a list from: http://www.greatschools.net/schools/districts/California/CA
There is another list available here: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/si/ds/pubschls.asp This is an Excel database which includes all schools and districts. I sorted by district, but this was unwieldy, so I stuck with the list from greatschools.net.
I copied and pasted the entire list (without city and county) to replace what had already been done, double-checking against the original list for variations. I find that greatschools.net added the word "Elementary" to all districts names that are only Elementary districts. Districts, however, seem to go by one or the other, so I am now working through the list going to each individual Elementary district to see what NAME THEY ACTUALLY USE, which is what I will leave on this list. In a few cases the word "City", has also been appended, so I will eventually check every one of them. DavidPickett ( talk) 02:30, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
I have reverted a set of changes done yesterday, because they were changed to have the word ELEMENTARY in them, while the official District Names do not include the word "Elementary". County Offices of Education likewise do not include "School District" I have gone to every district website through the letter R and confirmed the district's preferred name as shown by their website DavidPickett ( talk) 15:25, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I would like to propose that instead of having a separate list of California school districts by county, which is further split up into a multitude of lists for each county (some so short that calling them a "list" is questionable), everything could be consolidated into a dynamically-sortable table on this page. Thus it would serve as an alphabetical list and a by-county list as the reader likes, and there would be only 1 page to maintain instead of n+2 (where n = number of California counties). -- LarryGilbert ( talk) 17:33, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
if merging information, keep structure so there are multiple ways of searching for info, makes no sense to have only 1 method of looking up info....
keep the county lists, keep the individual lists
also suggest a COUNT variable and DATE updated as well, like:
List of school districts in Alameda County, California (X number of schools, last updated DATE/DATE/DATE)
All Elementary districts do not have the word "Elementary" in their name. The same goes for several other words that editors seem to want to add to this listing. I have checked into each district's website-- "annotated links on edit page, hidden". Even going so far as to check on downloads of PDFs of Board Minutes and the like, to make sure the name that is listed here is the name that is USED by the district.
I find that greatschools.net added the word "Elementary" to all districts names that are only Elementary districts. Districts, however, seem to go by one or the other, so I am now working through the list going to each individual Elementary district to see what NAME THEY ACTUALLY USE, which is what I will leave on this list. In a few cases the word "City", has also been appended, so I will eventually check every one of them. DavidPickett ( talk) 02:58, 1 May 2011 (UTC)