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Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning

high school in Texas, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4916158
Source-derived summary

The Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning (BCTAL) is a magnet school in the Birdville Independent School District, located in North Richland Hills, Texas. BCTAL offers students of Haltom High School, Richland High School, and Birdville High School courses in career and technology.

Campus

The Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning is located in a central location relative to its three feeder schools. It was built in 2008-2009 and officially opened to students in 2009. It was designed to provide more space for the career and technology programs to centralize most of the district's programs in one location.

Programs

Programs at the campus include Media Technology, Agricultural, Pre Medical, Animal Science, Cosmetology, Automotive Technology, Construction Technology, Culinary Arts, Criminal Justice, Travel/Tourism and many others.

Editorial summary

“Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning” enters the record as high school in Texas, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Birdville, Center and Technology can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Birdville, Center and Technology.
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Why this record matters

“Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Birdville, Center and Technology provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4916158. Authority coordinates are 32.858, -97.233. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2009.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.