Sedan High School

{{short description|Public high school in Sedan, Kansas}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox school | name = Sedan Junior/Senior High School | logo = | seal_image = | image = | caption = | motto = | address = 416 East Elm Street | city = Sedan | state = Kansas | zipcode = 67361 | country = U.S. | coordinates = {{coord|37.1295|-96.1831|region:US-KS_type:edu_source:GNIS|display=inline,title}} | schooltype = High School | fundingtype = Public | established = | school_board = | district = Chautauqua County USD 286 | ceeb = 172720 <ref>[http://www.suny.edu/student/search_highschool/index.cfm High School CEEB Code Search]</ref> | principal_label = Principal | principal = | staff = | faculty = | teaching_staff = 15.90 (FTE)<ref name=NCES/> | ratio = 11.82<ref name=NCES/> | grades = 6 to 12 | gender = coed | enrollment = 188 (2023-2024)<ref name=NCES>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=2011520&ID=201152000446|title=Sedan High School|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=May 12, 2025}}</ref> | schedule = | hours_in_day = | campus_size = | campus_type = Rural | area = | colors = | athletics = | athletic_conference = | sports = | mascot = | communities = Sedan, Peru, Elgin, Chautauqua | website = }}

'''Sedan Junior and Senior High School''' is a public middle and high school in Sedan, Kansas, United States.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2018|title=School Detail for Sedan High|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=2011520&ID=201152000446|access-date=2020-11-03|website=nces.ed.gov|language=EN}}</ref><ref name=max>{{cite web|url=http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/sedan-devils-(sedan,ks)/home.htm|title=Sedan High School (KS) Home - MaxPreps|website=MaxPreps.com}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1994-06-27|title=Relax, Red Devils|pages=4|work=The Iola Register|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62465460/relax-red-devils/|access-date=2020-11-03}}</ref>

== History == thumb|First Sedan High School building, used as gymnasium in 1923 thumb|Sedan High School, 1923 Sedan High School graduated its first class of five students in 1889.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1890-05-09|title=Commencement Exercises of Sedan High School; graduation speeches|pages=2|work=The Weekly Times-Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62276430/commencement-exercises-of-sedan-high/|access-date=2020-10-31|quote=We, the class of '90 appear before you as the second graduating class of our schools.}}</ref><ref name="History of Sedan High School">{{Cite news|date=1902-01-23|title=History of Sedan High School|pages=4|work=The Freeman's Lance|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62305616/history-of-sedan-high-school/|access-date=2020-11-03}}</ref> In 1900, the hardwood floors of the first school building were replaced,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1900-07-12|title=Floors of high school building replaced|pages=5|work=The Freeman's Lance|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62279878/floors-of-high-school-building-replaced/|access-date=2020-11-01}}</ref> and a new school building was built in 1904.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1904-11-11|title=New school building|pages=5|work=The Freeman's Lance|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62305851/new-school-building}}</ref> 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.<ref name="History of Sedan High School"/>

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."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=1923-11-15|title=Sedan is justly proud of her schools|pages=3|work=The Sedan Times-Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62271925/sedan-is-justly-proud-of-her-schools/|access-date=2020-10-31}}</ref> The paper also noted the school's membership in the North Central Association of high schools that had been formed in 1895.<ref name=":0" />

A Works Progress Administration project took place at the school in 1937.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1937-02-25|title=WPA men transferred|pages=1|work=The Advertiser-Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62454805/wpa-men-transferred/|access-date=2020-11-03}}</ref>

By 1949, the school had graduated a total of 946 students in its first fifty years.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1939-05-25|title=Fifty years ago|pages=4|work=The Pawnee Courier-Dispatch|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62417130/fifty-years-ago/|access-date=2020-11-03}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1960-03-19|title=Let contracts for Sedan High School|pages=8|work=The Ottawa Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62455360/let-contracts-fo-sedan-high-school/|access-date=2020-11-03}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1994-06-17|title=Sedan Blue Devil gets green light|pages=4|work=Council Grove Republican|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62496172/sedan-blue-devil-gets-green-light/|access-date=2020-11-03}}</ref>

In the 2019–2020 school year, there were 163 students enrolled in grades 7–12, and a student to teacher ratio of 11.81.<ref name=":1" /> And in the 2023-2024 school year, the student population reached up to 188, with a student to teacher ratio of 11.82.

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== External links == * [https://www.usd286.org/ Chautauqua County USD 286] - public school district * [http://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/SchoolDistrict/School%20District_286.pdf USD 286 School District Boundary Map], KDOT

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