Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Schools! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's School articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. Ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories.

Frequently asked questions

 * How can I get my article rated? : Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any member of the Schools WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. However, please review WP:COI before rating an article you are heavily involved in.
 * What if I don't agree with a rating? : You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
 * Aren't the ratings subjective? : Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the project banner on its talk page: If the article already has an infobox, add the line: needs-infobox=no. By adding "info= " this template will generates a boilerplate assessment text.

Process

 * Become familiar with the quality scale and importance scale as listed below.
 * Then for each review:


 * 1) Tag an article related to this project (or look at a tagged article).
 * 2) Read the article and analyze it.
 * 3) Place your assessment in the  banner on the articles talk page (according to the scales below).
 * 4) Unless the reasoning for an assessment is self-evident, such as assessing a very short article as Stub-class and Low-importance, please place a summary of your assessment on the article's talk page. This should include a rationale for your choice of ratings, and possibly suggestions for future contributors on how to improve the article's quality rating. If the assessment is likely to be controversial you may wish to leave a note about it on the main project talk page.

Quality scale
Note: You should not assign any GA, A, FA or FL grades arbitrarily. These grades must pass through official Wikipedia channels and undergo a peer review process.

Importance scale
 School article statistics This list is generated automatically by a bot approximately every 3 days.
 * view full worklist   /    view log

School articles are rated on this importance scale. Importance must be regarded as a relative term. If importance values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project and to the work groups the School falls under. An article judged to be "Top-Class" in one context may be only "Mid-Class" in another project. The criteria used for rating article priority are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Importance assessments, especially of schools in the higher categories, are frequently reassessed and may go up or down in order to retain an appropriate balance within each country and within all the categories. Assessors are not experts on the schools in every country of the world, and will only make assessments based on the content of the existing article. Assessors can also check viewing stats for school articles using the Wikipedia stats tool, though stats will only be used in combination with other factors.

The following values may be used for importance assessments:
 * Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance school articles.
 * High - adds articles to Category:High-importance school articles.
 * Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance school articles.
 * Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance school articles.
 * NA - Non-article, adds to Category:NA-importance school articles. All categories, disambiguation pages, files, portals, project pages, and templates should be given this value.
 * ??? - If left blank, the article will be added by default to Category:Unknown-importance school articles.

Article importance standards
Assessments should not, in general, leave this field blank. This guide acts as a general standard by which to measure WikiProject Schools articles


 * Top-importance - It is expected that at least one article from each country should be in this category. Countries with higher populations will necessarily have more schools of top-importance. Top importance schools will usually have a long list of notable international alumni or important national alumni (e.g., prime ministers, presidents, senior royalty, Nobel prize winners). They will often have received substantial national or international media coverage as evidenced by inclusion in TV programmes, books, e.t.c. They will be the most notable schools in their particular country, and they are also likely to have articles in foreign-language Wikis.
 * High-importance - Such schools will usually have a long list of notable alumni. They are often amongst the oldest or highest performing schools in their particular country. They will have received substantial media coverage and multiple sources will be available to aid the expansion of the article. Schools which feature in other encyclopedias such as Microsoft Encarta or Encylopedia Britannica are included in this category if they are not already of top importance.
 * Mid-importance - Such schools will have a few elements of more general national interest (e.g. a few particularly noteworthy and important alumni or significant awards).
 * Low-importance - Low importance schools are of vital interest to their communities but have no national or international recognition or importance. Nearly all primary/elementary schools and middle schools will fall into this category, as will the majority of high/secondary schools.
 * ??? - This is the default setting and should also be used for articles which have been assessed but have not had their importance established.

School age
School ages are considered in relative terms within countries. For example a school founded in the eighteenth century is often young in European terms. For further reference see:
 * Category:Educational institutions by year of establishment
 * List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom

Categories

 * Assessment change log

Assessment requests
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below. If you assess an article, please strike it off using Strike-through text  so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Old and fulfilled requests are periodically removed from the list.

Please note:


 * Only a small group of editors watch this list, and as a result, response times to assessment requests can vary from instant to over a week.
 * If you aim for an article to be promoted to GA, A, or FA class, please consider requesting a peer review as well, so the article can be exposed to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors.
 * The assessment request process is not intended to replace the Good article nominations and Featured article candidates processes.

List
Add requests to the bottom of this list, please also sign your request by adding four tildes ( ~ ):

*Hillel Day School - it used to be a redirect to locality, I just did a major rewrite. The talk page still shows "This article has been rated as Redirect-Class". I appreciate someone to assess the article. Will welcome your suggestions. Best regards, Yymmff (talk) 02:29, 20 November 2019 (UTC) ✅ Done by RogueScholar on 22 November 2019. Yamfri (talk) 20:26, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Knox Academy - I've done some work to improve referencing/tone/content (and added an infobox), taking into account some important historical context and some recent events that were widely covered in the media. August 4th, 2019. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.73.150.97 (talk)
 * Elizabeth College, Guernsey - This has been a GA nominee for some time, but I think (and correct me if this isn't the correct use of this page) it should at least be reviewed by some Project Schools editors to reassess its status. It's currently a C-class article, but since that rating was assigned, I have done a large amount of work on the article.  Formulaone  wiki  17:40, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

*Edmund Burke School - page has been expanded and rewritten, a new assessment would be appreciated Bleubsdorf (talk) 10:55, 2 July 2020 (UTC) Change to Start. ✅Done Bigbrain132 (talk) 00:55, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
 * St George's School, Harpenden - page has been rapidly expanded recently, including History and Alumni. Creativerobot12345 (talk) 13:45, 20 July 2020 (UTC) No change.✅Done
 * The Vanguard School (Colorado) - I rewrote the article and I feel it needs a reassessment. It can't possibly still be stub-class after this, right? ✅ Done-ClemRutter (talk) 10:10, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Iceland School of Energy - New to editing, and trying to update the Wikipedia for my school. Upon doing so it was flagged for having a COI. Can someone please review it, and provide feedback? Thank you. LaurentiuAnton (talk) 12:56, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Geracruzcolusa (talk) 06:38, 4 September 2020 (UTC) ✅ Done- for the moment. Interested in an thoughts on the standard I used.ClemRutter (talk) 15:02, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Reedsburg Area High School - Has been significantly expanded on by several editors, and I would like an outside perspective on the current status of this article. Thanks. JackFromReedsburg (talk) 21:50, 11 October 2020 (UTC) ✅ Done-ClemRutter (talk) 10:58, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
 * List of Isfahan schools Baratiiman (talk) 17:07, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Could the assessing editor(s) also advise on whether that title is appropriate or whether List of schools in Isfahan would be better? Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 18:59, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, I have moved this back to draft following the cut-and-paste move to a different title, circumventing the AFC process. As for title, "List of schools in" would be the appropriate format, which follows the other list pages. Steven (Editor) (talk) 20:52, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China - Has been significantly revamped and expanded by several editors, would like to have it reassessed. Thanks. Foreverj2222 (talk) 21:44, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Forest Hills Eastern High School has been revamped and had a significant amount of information added to it so I would like for it to be reassesed. I'm a bit new to the wikipedia process/standards for articles so if someone could please go through it and leave some suggestions as well as helping identify COI issues it would be greatly appreciated. --Sirryan2002 (talk) 17:00, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Bishop Ramsey School Almost quintupled in size -78.147.232.155 (talk) 18:25, 15 June 2021 (UTC) I've removed the additions, which were a copy/paste from the school's website; as it stands the article appears to be correctly assessed. Wham2001 (talk) 20:21, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hathaway Academy has been completely overhauled and I have added history, a headteachers list and some other things. I would greatly appreciate a reassessment as the article is clearly no longer Stub Class and has been expanded significantly since its previous assessment made over 12 years ago. ThatRandomGuy1 (talk) 01:32, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
 * John Dewey Academy of Learning has been completely overhauled several times throughout the years (mostly by me), and has been something of a passion project. I've worked especially hard recently to revamp the page, and add photos and data that I've acquired over the years. I would really appreciate a review, as I think it's moved a bit past stub! Foxtrot620 (talk) 08:06, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Teacher strikes in the United States I recently created this page and would like it looked at for importance rating Delphinium1 (talk) 15:06, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Atlantic College Last assessed almost a decade ago, and the article has been significantly added to and improved since then. Would appreciate a re-assessment, and any suggestions on how to further improve the page. Dotx3 (talk) 00:00, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Valor Christian High School Put a lot of time in to document some elements of the school. descantador94 (talk) 00:00, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, you've done some good work, but restoring contested content that has been removed is not a good idea. Neither is ignoring the copyvio warning about this page on your talk page. We cannot host material form the school's copyrighted page. Meters (talk) 08:17, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * The Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit - completely rewritten, please have a look. Will appreciate a grade and advise. Yamfri (talk) 03:52, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅Done: Now C class 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 23:51, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Merewether High School Significantly expanded the article, particularly the lede, and curriculum section. I intend to expand the article further in the future, but I believe the present article has satisfied enough criteria to be upgraded to at least a C-level article. ZCJigglypuff (talk) 02:31, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅Done: Now C class 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 23:50, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Pocomoke High School - Added Information and References I hope it can at least be a C-Class Article. SkyeWolf369 (talk) 13:53, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * ❌Not Done: Does not Qualify for C-class. 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 23:48, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Princeton Day School - Given some fairly substantial issues that have yet to be addressed, I feel the article would be more accurately listed as C-Class. –Noahfgodard (talk) 01:00, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅Done: Now C class 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 23:47, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering - The article has been significantly improved, expanded, and has the appropriate references. A reassesment would be appreciated! BetterCallSaulKripke (talk) 02:53, 20 May 2022 (UTC)BetterCallSaulKripke
 * ✅Done: Now C class 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 21:40, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Box Hill School - I believe this article was last reviewed in 2007, and was graded as low importance and stub quality. I believe neither of these assessments to be accurate today. I have personally largely extended this article, though since its last review it had been already significantly edited by others. Though there is still more to be done I believe it to be in need of a review. Many thanks, Grosseteste (talk) 12:59, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅Done: Now Start Class 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 21:39, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * William Blount High School - I do not believe this article has been previously reviewed by this project. I have substantially expanded it, and I think it is ready for review. Thank you in advance for your time and assistance. Scutarius 17:17, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅Done: Now Start Class 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 21:37, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Charterhouse School - I have made some alterations to the article but I would like to know what needs to be improved. I am very new and am trying to improve my school’s article to a GA rating, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
 * Do NOT edit your own school, Not only is it a conflict of interest, but can be dangerous to you, who knows who might want to do harm to you, by editing your own school you are putting yourself in danger. 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 21:35, 29 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Finneytown Secondary Campus I expanded this article from its previous state and I no longer think that the article is of a stub quality. Ukraineball91 (talk) 02:36, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅Done: Now Start Class 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 21:33, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Wallace Hall (Thornhill) - This article has been extensively rewritten over the past few months, as well as hugely expanded with all necessary references. Another assessment would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Kalumbus (talk) 18:24, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅Done: Now Class C 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 03:09, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The Derryfield School - This article has been extensively expanded, and its current stub-class assessment was automatically added. Another assessment would be appreciated. That334 (talk) 16:33, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅Done: Now Start Class, with more sources it would easily become a C-Class Article. I Would Suggest: School Digger, US News & World Report (Education), NCES, Great-Schools, & Niche. 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 14:46, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Assessment summaries
Up until February 2010 assessment summaries were placed in this section. However, to make assessing articles easier this practice has ended with old assessments now archived. At present assessments should be placed on the respective article's talk page (see ).

Article completions
There is a backlog of 3,117 articles with no assessment at all at Category:Unassessed school articles (24 February 2018). The backlog at Category:Unknown-importance school articles is increasing, with 13,954 articles in this category (24 February 2018), compared to 13,000 in July 2010 and 12,600 in March 2011. ''Verified: EyeTripleE (talk) 19:15, 14 October 2015 (UTC)'
 * Updated: ClemRutter (talk) 10:51, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Finished assessing all of the unassessed articles, will work on unknown-importances next. ChillyBlanket (talk) 00:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Assessment team
An alphabetical list of those of us who are active within the Assesssment Department of WikiProject Schools :


 * ChillyBlanket
 * Dahliarose
 * EyeTripleE
 * Glanis
 * LonelyBeacon
 * PaulGamerBoy360 (Mostly U.S., Canada, & UK)