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Poth Independent School District

school district in Texas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ7234879 ↗
Source-derived summary

Poth Independent School District is a public school district based in Poth, Texas, that serves students in south central Wilson County

The district's colors are navy blue, white, and gold and its mascot is a Pirate named "Pirate Steve".

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

Schools

Superintendent is Paula Renken

Poth High School (grades 9–12) principal is Todd Deaver

Poth Junior High School (grades 6–8) principal is Laura Kroll

Poth Elementary School (grades PK–5) principal is Laura Kroll

UIL

The school is officially a 3A, according to the University Interscholastic League.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Poth Independent School District” as school district in Texas. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Poth, Independent and School can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as school district in Texas. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7234879. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Poth Independent School District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Poth Independent School District primary sources, Poth Independent School District archive and Poth 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 “Poth Independent School District”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Poth 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.