UIL Realignment is fast approaching for the 2024-2025 football seasons and big changes could be afoot in this alignment unlike the last realignment were status quo for the most part ruled the day.

Snapshot Day will be in October and that’s when schools turn in their enrollment number to the UIL that will be calculated for the coming realignment, some time after Thanksgiving the UIL will release their classification cut-offs which will then let us know the classes every school will wind up in. Then in February the realignment is released that is the district and playoff road map for the next two football seasons.

Today we bring you a list of a dozen schools who we think have a strong chance to change either classification or division when the alignments get released.

Aledo

Aledo just made the move to Class 5A-Division I in the 2022 realignment, but the growth west of Fort Worth isn’t slowing down with the Walsh Ranch development still expanding. Aledo’s not a lock to go Class 6A, but expect them to be right on the cut-line where they could be one of the state’s smallest 6A schools or one of the largest 5A-Division I schools.

Brock

The Eagles barely missed moving up to Class 4A last realignment and based on enrollment numbers submitted to the TEA the Eagles are well over the 4A cutline to basically the middle of the pack in enrollment in 4A-Division II.

DeSoto

DeSoto ISD has seen a steep decline in enrollment the past two years and the district ended their open enrollment policies, thus their enrollment at the end of the 2022-2023 school year had dropped under 2,300 students, down from nearly 2,800 two years ago. The incoming eighth grade group is small as well, so the possibility of a drop to Class 5A-Division I is very real for the Eagles.

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Fulshear

The Chargers have been getting explosive growth on the southern end of Fort Bend County, they weren’t far off from the 6A cut-line two years ago and last school year they were well over the Class 6A cut-off, so expect the Chargers to make the move up.

Granger

Another school that is not a lock to move up, but is sitting right on that Division I/Division II line in Class 2A  is Granger, the growth is coming to the sleepy town north of Austin and if the Lions do remain in Division II this realignment this is probably their final rodeo.

Gunter

Gunter has teetered along the 3A-Division I/Division II line the past couple of realignments and they may fall over the Division I line next year as at the end of the 2022-2023 schools year the Tigers were above the cut-line, but it is not the lock that Gunter moves up that most think, it’ll be close.

Iowa Colony

Iowa Colony opened up in 2022 as a 4A school and their numbers should put them above the threshold for Class 5A as the campus and the area around the campus which is near Freedom Field continues to grow.

Lake Belton

Most insiders believe Lake Belton, who just began varsity play in 2022 as a 5A-Division I program is set to make the leap to Class 6A in 2024. A smaller senior class that still had a lot of students grandfathered into Belton High is moving on and much larger group of incoming freshmen could push their enrollment north of 2,300 students.

Liberty Hill

Fast growth in Williamson County is engulfing the once sleepy outpost of Liberty Hill, they just made the move to Class 5A in 2020 and it appears there’s a strong chance they jump up to 5A-Division I in 2024 and that stay could be quite short as 6A isn’t far away.

Lindale

There’s been plenty of growth north of Tyler and Lindale is getting really close to popping back up to Class 5A in this realignment. If the 4A/5A cut-line remains where it is this past alignment Lindale will be  a 5A program, but if it goes up then things get really interesting for the Eagles.

New Home

New Home is part of the fast growth that is south and west of the city of Lubbock, where Lubbock-Cooper will open a second high school in 2024 and Frenship ISD will have a second high school in 2026. New Home made the move from 1A to 2A-Division II in 2020 and now they are likely bound for Division I as they ended the 2022 school year with Division I numbers already.

Sherman

There’s a ton of growth in the Texoma area right now and Sherman is getting plenty of it right now, Sherman ISD has passed multiple bonds in anticipation of the growth and that’s coming to fruition now as they expect to move from 5A-Division I to Class 6A.