Arcadia High School (Arcadia, Wisconsin)
Arcadia High School is a high school in Arcadia, Wisconsin, USA. The school is in a very rural area, and the Arcadia School District covers approximately 211 square miles (550 km2), drawing students from both Trempealeau and Buffalo counties. Small townships that attend Arcadia High School include the communities of Pine Creek, North Creek, Dodge, and Waumandee. The high school is located on the southern edge of the city and neighbors Memorial Park.
Arcadia High School was built in 1998 and houses grades 9–12. The school also offers learning opportunities for middle school students in the afternoon. Arcadia High School's enrollment is consistently less than 310. The school offers opportunities for the growing Latino population and holds a foreign exchange student program.
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[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
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