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Pharr-San Juan-Alamo North High School

high school in Pharr, Hidalgo County, Texas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7180860
Source-derived summary

Pharr-San Juan-Alamo North Early College High School is a public school in Pharr, Texas (United States). It is part of the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District and is one of the district's six high schools. It is classified as a 6A school by the UIL. For the 2024-2025 school year, the school received an overall rating of "A" from the Texas Education Agency.

Located at 500 E. Nolana Loop, the school serves students in grades nine through twelve.

Student demographics

As of the 2005–2006 school year, PSJA North had a total of 2,209 students (98.2% Hispanic, 1.4% White, 0.3% African American, and less than 0.1% Asian/Pacific Islander). 86.6% of the students are considered economically disadvantaged.

Attendance area and feeder patterns

The school's attendance boundary includes most of Pharr and sections of McAllen.

Feeder elementary schools include Arnold, Ford, Kelly-Pharr, Dr. Long, Longoria, Palmer, and Ramirez. Feeder middle schools include Lyndon B. Johnson and Liberty.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pharr-San Juan-Alamo North High School” is high school in Pharr, Hidalgo County, Texas. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pharr-San, Juan-Alamo and North, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 2025, 2005, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Pharr-San, Juan-Alamo and North is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “high school in Pharr, Hidalgo County, Texas” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7180860. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024, 2025, 2005 and 2006.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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Three-step research path

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Pharr-San Juan-Alamo North High School” 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.