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The result was moved to Draft:Benchmark School, admin discretion. If there are sources, let them be added and the draft can be submitted for approval through WP:AFC. BD2412 T 16:27, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Benchmark School[edit]

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promotional and nonnotable. Even at the height of accepting school articles, we very rarely accepted articles on schools below the secondary level. This is such a school, and the contents indicates why that was and remains a good practice.

There are only two alumni with Wikipedia article, the list of "top colleges attended by Benchmark Graduates" is promotional , and the list of school clubs & other school assemblies suchas their Ice Cream Social of no interest to anyone not a student or prospective student.

And there does not appear to be a single third party reference. I considered draftifying, but there's really no prospect of an article. DGG ( talk ) 08:43, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 09:14, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 09:16, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 09:17, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Benchmark School goes up to 8th grade, so that is secondary education. Plenty of precedent from schools that include middle school. This wikipedia page has existed for 3+ years without any notability concerns. Already outside sources included. More could be added, but it's not just from the school.Pennsylvania2 (talk) 22:52, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

8th grade in the US is normally considered junior high school, not high school, and we have almost never accepted an article on them. Nor should we, based upon the material and references in this article. The outside sources to which you refer are local suburban newspapers from the area of the school. That's exactly he sort of local sources that do not prove notability. DGG ( talk ) 23:34, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete To be even maybe default notable a school must be a high school. That means for the US it must cover 10-12 grades, often 9th, but a school that covers 9th without 10th we will rule as needing to pass extraordinary notability guidelines. This clearly does not.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:46, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Promotional article on a non-notable K-8 school. Best, GPL93 (talk) 00:59, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep - while the current article is a mess, there are possible sources from books. There's a lot of work to do on this mess, though, and I'm not up to rescuing it. Bearian (talk) 22:30, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bearian I don't think it affects your argument but just as a heads up your third source doesn't mention the Benchmark School, but the concept of "benchmark schools". Best, GPL93 (talk) 23:05, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Seems like enough sources. I just read an article about the school in Philadelphia magazine. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 16:13, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Notable school that has been featured in a variety of good sources including the Philadelphia Inquirer. [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:45:4000:c590:b9f6:8828:73c2:9488 (talk • contribs)

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