Editing Gainesville, Texas (section)

=== Higher education ===

[[File:North Central Texas College June 2017 10 (Administration and Student Services Building).jpg|thumb|[[North Central Texas College]] Administration and Student Services Building]]

[[North Central Texas College]] (NCTC), a five-campus [[community college]] system, is headquartered in Gainesville, with the main campus being located on the west side of town.

The college, which the [[Texas Legislature]] designates as serving Cooke County,<ref>[https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.130.htm Texas Education Code Sec. 130.190.  NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.]</ref> has locations in Gainesville, [[Bowie, Texas|Bowie]], [[Corinth, Texas|Corinth]], [[Denton, Texas|Denton]], [[Graham, Texas|Graham]], and [[Flower Mound, Texas|Flower Mound]]. Satellite locations exist at Northwest High School, Little Elm High School, and the Graham Education and Workforce Center. NCTC began as Gainesville Junior College in 1924, and has the distinction of being the oldest continuously operated community college in Texas. NCTC has come to be known for its ever-growing health-sciences program. It offers help such as writing and math labs, which are tutoring centers for students to get more out of their education. Areas of study include certified nursing assistant, associate degree nursing (LVN), registered nurse, emergency medical technician, and radiology technician programs.

NCTC Lion/Lady Lion Athletics, which consists of baseball, softball, volleyball, and women's tennis, competes as part of the [[National Junior College Athletic Association]]. The NCTC Lion baseball team won the 2001 NJCAA National Championship.