Wikipedia:Schools/compromise

Schools are frequently important to their communities, and are often the subject of the sort of reliable published sources that are needed to complete an article. Wikipedia articles about schools should show that there is sufficient coverage of that school to allow for the creation of a complete article.

An article is warranted if the school is the subject of reliable independent non-trivial    published works.'''  If it is not, then it is likely that sufficient information to expand the article does not yet exist, and any verifiable information should be merged and redirected to an article about the locality or school district which includes the school.

Notability is generally assumed if the school has national or regional recognition for: curriculum, extracurricular activities, history, architecture, or other significant attributes.

Merging information
Articles about schools that do not meet the above criteria may be unexpandable save for demographic data. Such articles may be merged into an article about their parent community. However, this is not an excuse to turn community articles into directory listings. See Places of local interest for more suggestions for dealing with such articles. In general, even when a merger is non-optimal, it is preferable to make redirects out of small stubs and not delete the history, rather than to delete the articles.

In addition, Wikipedia is neither a directory nor a phonebook. Articles should not list upcoming events, phone numbers, schedules, etc.