Editing McAllen, Texas (section)

==Education==

===Postsecondary===
* [[South Texas College]] has a total of more than 27,000 students attending its five campuses in Hidalgo and Starr counties, and the eSTC virtual campus. The main campus is in McAllen.

===Primary and secondary schools===
The [[McAllen Independent School District]] serves most of the city followed by the [[Valley View Independent School District (Hidalgo County, Texas)|Valley View Independent School District]] and the [[Sharyland Independent School District]]. Portions of the city extend into the [[Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District]], which operates two elementary schools within the McAllen city limits. The [[Hidalgo Independent School District]], [[Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District]] also serve McAllen.

In addition, residents are allowed to apply to magnet schools operated by the [[South Texas Independent School District]].

The Catholic [[Diocese of Brownsville]] operates Our Lady of Sorrows School, an elementary and middle school.

===Public libraries===
[[McAllen Public Library]] operates a main library and two branches, the Lark Branch and the Palm View Branch. The New Main Library opened in the fall of 2011 inside a former [[Walmart]] big-box store.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mcallenlibrary.net/about/newmain.aspx |title=McAllen Public Library – New Main Library – opening 2011 |publisher=Mcallenlibrary.net |access-date=2011-09-04}}</ref> The library earned high praise and received the International Interior Design Association's 2012 Library Interior Design Award.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/07/07/abandoned_walmart_in_mcallen_texas_becomes_an_award_winning_public_library_how_big_box_stores_are_becoming_public_spaces_.html |title=How an Abandoned Wal-Mart Became an Award-Winning Public Library |last1=Lametti |first1=Daniel |date=July 7, 2012 |last2=Waldman |first2=Katy |newspaper=Slate |language=en-US |issn=1091-2339 |access-date=September 3, 2016}}</ref>

===Arts and culture===
[[International Museum of Art & Science]] (IMAS), founded in 1967, is a Smithsonian Affiliate and American Alliance of Museums (AAM) accredited museum located in McAllen at the corner of Bicentennial and Nolana Avenue.