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Harrold Independent School District

school district in Texas

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ5666453 ↗
Source-derived summary

Harrold Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Harrold, Texas (USA) located in far eastern Wilbarger County. All students attend school in one building.

On August 15, 2008, The board of the Harrold Independent School District unanimously approved to let teachers bring guns to class. The identity of these so-called "guardians" are known only to the Superintendent and the school board, who approve each individual.

Academic achievement

In 2009, the school district was rated "recognized" by the Texas Education Agency.

Special programs

Athletics

Harrold High School plays six-man football.

Editorial summary

“Harrold Independent School District” enters the record as school district in Texas. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Harrold, Independent and School can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. 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 Harrold, Independent and School.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Harrold Independent School District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Harrold, Independent and School provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5666453. Authority coordinates are 34.079, -99.034. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2009.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Harrold Independent School District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Harrold Independent School District primary sources, Harrold Independent School District archive and Harrold research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Harrold Independent School District”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Harrold Independent School District” 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.