Realignment, Reclassification Changes Gives Texas Public High Schools Six Conferences

After 76 years as a recognized sport in Texas, six-man football now has a conference within the Texas high school football classification system. In order to accommodate this change, all 11-man football conferences have been bumped up a conference, effectively creating six conferences rather than five. Six-man schools are now known simply as Class 1A schools, rather than six-man schools.

The 2014-16 school reclassification and realignment brought several changes such as school size cut off and an extra conference, as well as two divisions in Class 1A – 4A. Classes 5A and 6A will not be subdivided into two divisions.

Conference and Division cutoffs for the next two seasons are as follows (these figures apply to high school enrollment figures):

Conference 6A:  2100+ students

Conference 5A:  1060-2099 students

Conference 4A,  Division I:  686-1059 students

Conference 4A, Division II:  465-685 students

Conference 3A, Division I:  315-464 students

Conference 3A, Division II:  220-314 students

Conference 2A Division I:  158-219 students

Conference 2A, Division II:  105-157 students

Conference 1A, Division I, 55-104 students

Conference 1A, Division II, 1-54 students

 

There are 245 6A schools, 253 5A schools, 186 4A schools, 214 3A schools, and 204 2A schools in Texas this year. In Class 1A, there are 209 basketball schools, 140 six-man football schools and 19 11-man football schools.

(Information from Caprock Courier)