[burroak]

What does the “Panhandle” have to do with the school being in East or West Texas?

[Dust in the Wind]

Well, as a truck driver Kansan I've found it fairly common knowledge that there is north Texas(Dallas area), west Texas (El Paso[Pecos River country]/Lubbock[also called the south plains]), The Valley (Rio Grande), not sure about the coastal plains and then there is The Panhandle (highway 86 north more or less) Texas is big as 4-5 of the states around it. I'm sure there are more Texas definitions, Hill country, The Thicket...

[Elsie]

Panhandle is NORTH Texas.