Rob wrote:
It would be nice if we could form a sensible compromise solution like folding most of the non-notable ones into district or county or town articles. I'm not sure this is possible given that most sensible people probably want to stay out of the school debate.
And also because not everyone is going to agree that this is "sensible". I've merged plenty of articles in my time, but the recent trend towards pasting together a whole bunch of small articles on narrowly-focused topics into one gigantic mega-article with a section on each, leaving a redirect behind, seems like a backwards way to go about it. All the same material is still there, it's just harder to find the specific thing you're looking for.