Editing Alton, Texas (section)

===Schools===
Mission CISD operates the following elementary schools that serve sections of Alton:<ref name=AltonZoningmap>"[https://alton-tx.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/REVISED-NEW-Proposed-Zoning-Map-2017.pdf Proposed Zoning Map 2017] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802181119/https://alton-tx.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/REVISED-NEW-Proposed-Zoning-Map-2017.pdf |date=August 2, 2018 }}." City of Alton. Retrieved on August 2, 2018. This map shows the city boundaries and which schools are in the city limits.</ref><ref name=MCISDboundaries>"[https://1.cdn.edl.io/rYE6UhIxe4QsKv97ew40tlmq4pc6h5XPQnxe7ZxapDZxZ9U0.pdf Mission CISD School Zones]." Mission Consolidated Independent School District. Retrieved on August 2, 2018. [https://www.mcisd.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=218194&type=d&pREC_ID=1139413 See HTML version]. Junior high boundaries are determined by the elementary school zoning, with some optional exceptions, while high school boundaries are described by text.</ref>
* Alton Elementary School – Alton
* Arturo Cantu Elementary School – Alton
** Named after Arturo Cantu, a Mission ISD teacher who in 1969 drowned in the Anzalduas Park after rescuing three of his students.<ref>"[https://cantu.mcisd.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=216971&type=d&pREC_ID=477960 School History]." Arturo Cantu Elementary School. Retrieved on August 4, 2018.</ref>
* Raquel Cavazos Elementary School<ref>[https://cavazos.mcisd.net/ Home]. Raquel Cavazos Elementary School. Retrieved on August 2, 2018.</ref> – Alton
* Waitz Elementary School – Alton
* Hurla M. Midkiff Elementary School<!--NOT in Alton--> – [[Palmhurst, Texas|Palmhurst]]
* Salinas Elementary School<!--NOT in Alton--> – annexed into the City of McAllen

Mission CISD operates Alton Memorial Junior High School, named in honor of the Mission CISD students who died in the 1989 bus crash, in Alton.<ref name=Fischler/> Students zoned to Cantu, Cavazos, and Waitz elementaries are zoned to Alton Memorial, while those zoned to Alton Elementary, Midkiff, and Salinas are zoned to Rafael A. Cantu Junior High School<!--NOT in Alton--> in Palmhurst. Sections of Alton are zoned to [[Mission High School (Mission, Texas)|Mission High School]] and [[Veterans Memorial High School (Mission, Texas)|Veterans Memorial High School]] in [[Mission, Texas|Mission]].<ref name=MCISDboundaries/>

There is a Mission CISD alternative high school: Mission Collegiate High School, in Alton.<ref>[https://mchs.mcisd.net/ Home]. [[Mission Collegiate High School]]. Retrieved on August 2, 2018.</ref> Sharyland ISD operates Jesse Jensen Elementary School in Alton.<ref name=AboutAlton/> Sharyland ISD sections of Alton are zoned to Jensen, North Junior High School in [[McAllen, Texas|McAllen]], and [[Sharyland Pioneer High School]] in [[unincorporated area|unincorporated]] Hidalgo County.<ref>[http://www.sharylandisd.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_416150/File/SharylandISD_NEW2.pdf Attendance boundary map]. [[Sharyland Independent School District]]. Retrieved on August 2, 2018. [http://www.sharylandisd.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_416150/File/attendance%20zones%20map.png See also simplified map] which also has a chart stating which elementary schools feed into which secondary schools.</ref>

La Joya ISD operates Domingo Treviño Middle School in Alton.<ref name=AboutAlton/><ref name=AltonZoningmap/> The sections of Alton in La Joya ISD are divided between:
* Diaz/Villareal Elementary School<!--North of Mile 5--> and Kika de la Garza Elementary School<!--South of Mile 5--><ref>"[http://lajoya.juiceboxinteract.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/elemzone.jpg Elementary School Zones 2017–2018] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20180916100352/http://lajoya.juiceboxinteract.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/elemzone.jpg |date=2018-09-16 }}." [[La Joya Independent School District]]. Retrieved on September 16, 2018.</ref>
* Treviño Middle and Memorial Middle School<ref>"[http://lajoya.juiceboxinteract.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/midzone.jpg Middle School Zones 2017–2018] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20180916100358/http://lajoya.juiceboxinteract.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/midzone.jpg |date=2018-09-16 }}." [[La Joya Independent School District]]. Retrieved on September 16, 2018.</ref>
* [[Juarez-Lincoln High School]]<!--North of Mile 5--> and [[Palmview High School]]<!--South of Mile 5--><ref>"[http://lajoya.juiceboxinteract.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/highzone.jpg High School Zones 2017–2018] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20180916100415/http://lajoya.juiceboxinteract.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/highzone.jpg |date=2018-09-16 }}." [[La Joya Independent School District]]. Retrieved on September 16, 2018.</ref>

In addition, [[South Texas Independent School District]] operates magnet schools that serve the community.