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Oregon high school naming

Oregon high schools are typically called "Foo High School". If they serve K-12, they are often called "Foo School". If they serve 7-12, they are often called "Foo Junior/Senior High School".

Unfortunately there's no firm rule behind these. Junior/Senior high schools may refer to themselves as "Foo High School". The best way to research it is to evaluate all sources. From lowest to highest reliability, the sources rank as follows:

The OSAA school information. This is a very poor source of data, they tend to refer to all schools as "Foo High School" even if it is really "Foo School" or "Foo Junior/Senior High School". For this reason, it's the least reliable source for naming.
The school website itself. This often has the common name of the school, but school web pages are self-published sources, often done by a rotating class of students with very little oversight.
The school district website.
Supplementary sources, such as accreditation (NAAS (good) and ACSI (not quite as good)) or the National Center for Education Statistics school search.
Oregon Department of Education's school directory. This tends to be highly accurate.

Generally, NCES and ODE will agree on the name, and that's the name that I use. However, I will go back and create redirects so all common names are covered:

If the school name is "Foo High School", I don't usually create any redirects
If the school name is "Foo School", I create a redirect at "Foo High School"
If the school name is "Foo Junior/Senior High School", I create redirects at "Foo High School", "Foo Jr./Sr. High School", and "Foo Jr/Sr High School".