Realignment: Predictions for the area's Class 6A schools – mySanAntonio.com (blog)
The area’s University Interscholastic League Class 6A schools may have new district foes when the UIL releases its biennial realignment Monday. (photo illustration by Ben Baby/San Antonio Express-News)
Depending on whom you ask, the biggest day next week will not include young men picking hats off tables, fake signing pieces of paper and posing with family members over pastry items.
Instead, the most significant day involves grown men running around a room, frantically holding up fingers, shouting things like “I need a Week 4!” as they scramble to find opponents for a football schedule.
Next Wednesday might be National Signing Day, but Monday is Realignment Day.
Every two years, the University Interscholastic League remaps all of its schools into athletic districts and classifications that will stay in place for the following two school years. The classifications are based on the enrollments taken from schools on a specific day (aka, Snapshot Day). Districts, however, are mainly assigned based on geography.
The UIL will officially release its realignment on Monday at 9 a.m. With that being said, here’s how I think the area’s Class 6A districts will play out. Click around the map to find out where your school might end up.
District 25-6A — New Braunfels Canyon, Smithson valley, New Braunfels, San Marcos, Buda Hays, Kyle Lehman
District 26-6A — Churchill, Johnson, Lee, MacArthur, Madison, Reagan, Roosevelt
District 27-6A — Brandeis, Brennan, Clark, Holmes, Jay, Marshall, O’Connor, Stevens, Taft, Warren
District 28-6A — Steele, Clemens, Judson, Wagner, South San, Southwest, East Central
A couple key factors will significantly affect how the area is realigned.
In the last realignment, San Antonio’s southernmost 6A schools — South San, Southwest, East Central — were in the same district as Corpus Christi’s 6A schools. But since all the Corpus Christi schools are expected to drop to 5A, this should put 28-6A’s bottom edge in San Antonio.
The other interesting move is San Marcos’ move up to 6A, which should raise the northern edge of Region IV and push Smithson Valley, New Braunfels Canyon and New Braunfels into a district in the Austin area.
There’s also an outside chance Lake Travis, Westlake or Del Valle moves to Region IV. All of Austin’s schools are currently in Region II.
District’s 26-6A and 27-6A should stay the same. North East ISD’s schools and Northside ISD’s schools will all play each other in district play. However, this means North East ISD would avoid the powerhouse district at the north edge of Bexar County in the first round of the playoffs.
This seems like the most likely scenario. But anyone who’s followed realignment over the years knows to expect the unexpected.
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