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, United States. It is the sole high school operated by Chautauqua County USD 286 school district, and serves students of grades 7 to 12. The school colors are blue and white and the school mascot is the blue devil.

History

Sedan High School graduated its first class of five students in 1889. By 1949, the school had graduated a total of 946 students in its first fifty years. In the 2019–2020 school year, there were 163 students enrolled in grades 7–12, and a student to teacher ratio of 11.81. In 1900, the hardwood floors of the first school building were replaced, and a new school building was built in 1904. The curriculum in 1902 consisted of "

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". By 1923, ''The Sedan Times-Star'' reported, "In our school district, No. 44, we have invested in buildings and equipment approximately $100,000.00 and our operating expense is from $35,000.00 to $40,000.00 per year." The paper also noted the school's membership in the

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project took place at the school in 1937. In 1960, a $380,000 bond issue was approved to construct a new building. The contract for the building went to H. D. Perkins Construction Co.,

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, with a bid of $181,229. The attorney for Unified School District 286 requested an opinion of the state's attorney general in 1994 to determine whether the school mascot, the blue devil, was a religious symbol in violation of the U.S. Constitution's

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and Fourteenth Amendments prohibiting establishment of a state religion. Attorney General Bob Stephan published a legal opinion that the mascot was unlikely to be perceived in a religious context.

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* {{Authority control Public high schools in Kansas Public middle schools in Kansas Chautauqua County, Kansas

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