User:Purplebackpack89/Schoolsaintnotable

First, let's remember two things:


 * 1) This would be a specific notability guideline.  Specific notability guidelines often go above and beyond the bare minimum of the GNG.  Any proposal that says "all schools are notable" because sources might be found without actually finding them (and certainly not putting them into the article), extends notability past GNG, essentially circumventing it.
 * 2) WP:NOTNEWS, and its common interpretation, indicate that appearing a newspaper or other media source doesn't automatically make you notable.  The PBS NewsHour recently pulled 5 Iowans and 5 Granite Staters off the street and discussed the GOP nomination with them.  Though they appeared on national TV, that doesn't make those 10 people notable .  Consider that weather phenomena that have received national coverage have seen their Wikipedia articles deleted.

Also, let's consider the coverage that schools get. Most of it falls under one or more of these five categories, none of which clearly establish notability:


 * 1) Local coverage (Recall that before WWII, newspapers in small towns also mentioned when townsfolk had the flu or relatives from out-of-town over)
 * 2) Routine coverage (The San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group has a "School of the Week" feature where they have a half-page blurb in each of their papers about an area school.  Since the feature is several years old, every school has been coveraged.  That doesn't make all of them notable.)
 * 3) Fleeting (a couple mentions of the school here and there, or a five-sentence writeup does not notability make)
 * 4) Human interest stories that aren't really about the school (if there's a story about an 8-year-old who beat cancer and happens to goes to Spiro T. Agnew Elementary School, that article is attesting to the notability of the 8-year-old, not the school).
 * 5) Random coverage (Many news stories pick a school, essentially at random, to illustrate some larger point about a district or state.  They could've picked any number of schools to make the same point, therefore the article doesn't really establish the notability of the school they picked)

Also, remember that much of the information in school-related articles comes not from reliable books and newspapers, but is ripped from the school's website, often in an essentially COPYVIO manner. A school's website cannot be used to establish notability. I will not weigh in on the notability of comprehensive 9-12 or 10-12 high schools. But anything else (K-5 elementary schools, 6-8 middle schools/junior highs/intermediates; and I'd personally add charter and continuation schools) had better have some pretty significant coverage if it is going to be kept. Significant coverage that doesn't violate any of my five no-nos.