Editing Wood County, Texas (section)

==Education==
=== Early schools ===
There were a number of so-called "subscription schools" in Wood County after 1854, when free public schools in Texas were on the rise due to legislative action. In 1852, a log schoolhouse in the western part of the county near Chaney Crossing on Lake Fork was built. By 1854, school was being taught in Quitman. By 1859, Quitman had three schools that required tuition to be paid.<ref name=":1" />

On January 8, 1884, the Texas legislature required the county to be divided into free public school districts. The school districts established by the legislature were Quitman, Lone Star, Myrtle Springs, Forest Hill, Cartwright, Caney, Rock Hill, Forest Home, Winnsboro, Chalybeate Springs, Spring Hill, Smyrna, Cold Springs, Shady Grove, Center Point, Pleasant Grove, Floyd's Common Ridge, Mount Pisgah, Liberty, Sand Springs, Fletcher, Pleasant Divide, Friendship, Lone Pint, Salem, Webster, Persimmon Grove, Cottonwood, Macedonia, Concord, New Hope, Dyess, Mount Enterprise, and "Albia" (Alba). Free school districts for African Americans were established at Quitman, Cedar Tree, Robinson's Chapel, Muddy Creek, Mount Zion, Tranquil, Center, Hawkins, Shiloh and "District 48" which encompassed all of the district west of Lake Fork.<ref name=":1" />

=== School districts ===
Portions of the county are served by 11 separate independent school districts, serving students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade:
* [[Alba-Golden Independent School District|Alba-Golden ISD]] (small portion in Rains County)
* [[Big Sandy Independent School District (Upshur County, Texas)|Big Sandy ISD]] (mostly Upshur County, small portion in Wood County)
* [[Como-Pickton Consolidated Independent School District|Como-Pickton CISD]] (mostly Hopkins County, small portion in Wood County)
* [[Harmony Independent School District|Harmony ISD]] (mostly Upshur County, small portion in Wood County)
* [[Hawkins Independent School District|Hawkins ISD]]
* [[Mineola Independent School District|Mineola ISD]]
* [[Pittsburg Independent School District|Pittsburg ISD]] (mostly Camp County, small portion in Wood County)
* [[Quitman Independent School District|Quitman ISD]]
* [[Union Hill Independent School District|Union Hill ISD]] (mostly Upshur County, small portion in Wood County)
* [[Winnsboro Independent School District|Winnsboro ISD]] (small portions in Franklin and Hopkins counties)
* [[Yantis Independent School District|Yantis ISD]] (small portion in Hopkins County)

=== Colleges and universities ===
[[Jarvis Christian College]] is located in [[unincorporated area|unincorporated]] Wood County, near [[Hawkins, Texas|Hawkins]].