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High school data
Hello, I am. In your recent update to George D. Chamberlain High School, you updated the enrollment numbers to the latest reported by the district. For high schools in the United States, we rely on independent secondary sources (rather than primary sources like schools and districts) in order to get consistent reporting across all schools. NCES, while reporting delayed numbers, provides consistent numbers for all schools that take any form of federal funding, so schools and districts have to be careful to submit accurate data on a pre-determined schedule. Alternatively, state departments of education can also be used, but note that data from some states is not reported in a manner consistent with NCES (e.g., some states report demographics in different categories than the federal government).

If you want to use more recent numbers from the Florida Department of Education or from the district, be sure to cite the source in a reference in the article (not just in the edit summary) so that users can track back to where the data came from (be careful not to remove the NCES reference entirely as it is shared in other places in the article; you may want to move the NCES reference to one of the other places where it is used (look for ). You may want to leave the NCES numbers and just add the more recent numbers on a separate line (using a tag). – Archer1234 (talk) 18:03, 16 July 2019 (UTC)