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White Oak High School (Texas)

high school in White Oak, Gregg County, 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 revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ17064860
Source-derived summary

White Oak High School is a public high school located in the city of White Oak, Texas, in Gregg County, United States and classified as a 3A school by the University Interscholastic League (UIL). It is a part of the White Oak Independent School District located in west central Gregg County. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.

The school district includes most of White Oak and a portion of Clarksville City.

Athletics

The White Oak Roughnecks compete in:

Volleyball, cross country, football, basketball, powerlifting, swimming, golf, tennis, track, softball and baseball.

State titles

Boys Basketball -

1953(B), 1957(B), 2012(2A), 2013(2A)

Boys Track -

1949(B), 1958(B), 1972(1A),

Volleyball -

2010(2A)

UIL Lone Star Cup Champions

2012(2A)

UIL State Military Marching Contest Champions 2021

UIL State Military Marching Contest Champions 2024

Notably, the school’s marching band has the most number of state championships in the 3A Military Marching Band Contest.

Editorial summary

“White Oak High School (Texas)” enters the record as high school in White Oak, Gregg County, Texas. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what White, High and School can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 1953, 1957, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around White, High and School.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“White Oak High School (Texas)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, White, High 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 Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17064860. Authority coordinates are 32.532, -94.861. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015, 1953, 1957 and 2012.

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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This entry incorporates text from White Oak High School (Texas)” 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.