Editing San Marcos, Texas (section)

==Education==
[[Image:Old Main Txstate.JPG|thumb|left|[[Old Main (Texas State University)|Old Main]] academic building at Texas State University]]
San Marcos is home to [[Texas State University]], a multidisciplinary public research university that was established in 1899.

For primary and secondary education, San Marcos is served by the [[San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District]]. [[San Marcos High School (Texas)|San Marcos High School]] is the district's sole high school. San Marcos Academy, a private high school, is in the city. Doris Miller Middle School and Owen Goodnight Middle School are the two middle schools located in San Marcos. San Marcos is home to seven elementary schools: Rodriguez, Hernandez, Mendez, Crockett, Travis, Bowie, and DeZavala Elementary Schools. The city also houses a prekindergarten school, named Bonham Pre-K.

San Marcos is also served by the [[Hays Consolidated Independent School District]], in which Blanco Vista Elementary School is located within the San Marcos city limits in the extreme northeastern part of the city.

The [[Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State]] is one of the four extant [[body farm]]s in the United States and the largest such forensics research facility in the world.<ref>Steinberg, R.U.. [http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2008-04-04/608463/ "Listening to the Bones"], ''[[The Austin Chronicle]]'', Austin, 4 April 2008. Retrieved on 31 May 2013.</ref>

San Marcos is also home to Aquarena Center,<ref name="aquarena" /> the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment,<ref>[http://www.meadowscenter.txstate.edu/ Meadows Center<!-- Bot generated title -->].</ref> the San Marcos National Fish Hatchery and Aquatic Resource Center,<ref>[http://www.fws.gov/southwest/fisheries/san_marcos/ San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center<!-- Bot generated title -->].</ref> the A. E. Wood Texas Fish Hatchery,<ref>[http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fish/management/hatcheries/aewood.phtml/ A. E. Wood Fish Hatchery<!-- Bot generated title -->].</ref> the San Marcos Nature Center,<ref>[http://ci.san-marcos.tx.us/index.aspx?page=796 San Marcos Nature Center<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816074100/http://ci.san-marcos.tx.us/index.aspx?page=796 |date=August 16, 2012 }},</ref> the Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos,<ref>[http://sanmarcoscentro.org/ Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos<!-- Bot generated title -->].</ref> and the Indigenous Cultures Institute.<ref>[http://www.indigenouscultures.org/ Indigenous Cultures Institute<!-- Bot generated title -->].</ref>

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