It’s official: Dripping Springs 6A

The UIL completed the second round of the realignment process, announcing the cutoff enrollment numbers to divide the classifications. When the UIL published the final cutoff number for 6A, the expected move up to 6A became official for Dripping Springs. For the next two years DS will be a member of the 6A classification. Here are the official breaks for each division. 6A: 2225 and up; 5A Div 1: 1925-2224; 5A Div II: 1300-1924; 4A Div I: 880-1299; 4A Div II: 545-879; 3A Div I: 360-544; 3A Div II: 250-359; 2A Div 1: 164.5-249; 2A Div II: 105-164.4.

The next step for the UIL personnel is to get out their big Texas map, a big box of push pins and a packet of rubber bands. They put a pin for each school in that classification. Now to determine what schools will be in each district they start stretching each rubber band to enclose schools in close proximity to each other until they have determined the 32 districts in that classification.

Dripping Springs (2335), most likely, will find themselves inside a rubber band that includes Lake Travis (3680), Westlake (2842), Austin Bowie (2830), Austin Akins (2642), Hays Johnson (2474), Austin High (2381) and Austin Anderson (2232). Del Valle (3578) and San Marcos (2467) were previously in the district. The thought from this corner is that San Marcos will head south to join New Braunfels, etc. Unless the UIL wants to put nine teams in a district, it should be easy, with their good transportation access nearby, to move Del Valle in a district to the south with San Marcos. As we have said before, even though it seems to be a no-brainer, the UIL has been known to go against logic.