Updated 11:35 a.m., Nov. 11, 2025

By Michael Adams
Austin Sports Journal

UIL Snapshot Day was on Oct. 31. That’s the day schools submit enrollment numbers to the UIL for its biannual redistricting and realignment. Schools have a final deadline of Friday, Nov. 7.

The Austin Sports Journal has collected enrollment figures for 68 of our 82 local high schools that compete in the UIL. Requests to Comal ISD have still not been returned.

We took those numbers and compared them to 2024. The data tells us the biggest changes were in the Cedar Park-Leander-Liberty Hill area.

The UIL will announce classification cutoffs in December, while new districts will be announced the first Tuesday in February 2026.

New schools Liberty Hill Legacy Ranch and New Braunfels Long Creek had the biggest growth, but that was to be expected.

Here’s a snapshot of the biggest changes in enrollment from 2024.

Who’s going up and who’s going down?

No one really knows what’s going to happen until redistricting is announced. Several factors could determine what happens to classification numbers for the 2026-28 UIL redistricting and reclassification.

However, using classification cutoff numbers from 2024 gives us an idea of where teams may land when classification numbers are announced next month.

It would appear that East View, Cedar Park, Hays, and Rouse are destined for Class 6A. The 2024 cutoff was 2,275. East View turned in 2,321, Cedar Park turned in 2,304, Rouse turned in 2,480 and Hays turned in 2,334. The number always increases, but even at the usual increase, those four schools would fall above the Class 6A cutoff.

The only other change that is assured is Manor returning to Class 5A. The Mustangs had the largest dip in enrollment and turned in 2,209. That’s well below the 2024 Class 6A cutoff.

New schools New Braunfels Long Creek and Liberty Hill Legacy Ranch will play their first varsity football season. With an enrollment of 1,585, Long Creek will likely be in Class 5A, which had a cutoff of 1,315 in 2024. Legacy Ranch turned in an enrollment of 1,048, which will likely put them in Class 4A.

Below are UIL numbers collected by the Austin Sports Journal.

UIL enrollments

SCHOOL	2026-28	2024-26	CHANGE
Round Rock	3,899	3,882	17
Vista Ridge	2,496	2,668	-172
Stony Point	2,419	2,769	-350
Vandegrift	2,361	2,533	-172
Cedar Ridge	2,789	2,898	-109
Westwood	2,856	2,834	22
Hutto	3,314	2,929	385
McNeil	2,706	2,631	75
Manor	2,209	2,570	-361
Austin High	2,299	2,297	2
Westlake	2,899	2,813	86
Lake Travis	3,428	3,774	-346
Dripping Springs	2,626	2,484	142
Bowie	2,872	2,904	-32
Akins	2,364	2,568	-204
Buda Johnson	2,976	2,815	161
San Marcos	2,333	2,505	-172
Georgetown	2,083	2,059	24
Weiss	2,069	1,994	75
East View	2,321	2,193	128
Hendrickson	2,127	2,108	19
Pflugerville	1,883	1,853	30
Elgin	1,808	1,822	-14
Connally	1,878	1,817	61
Anderson	2,174	2,167	7
Bastrop	1,736	1,729	7
McCallum	1,967	1,865	102
Ann Richards	898	868	30
Crockett	1,484	1,599	-115
Cedar Creek	2,158	2,123	35
LASA	1,493	1,520	-27
Navarro	1,403	1,774	-371
Cedar Park	2,304	1,966	338
Liberty Hill	1,750	1,891	-141
Rouse	2,460	2,088	372
Leander	2,263	2,270	-7
Hays	2,334	2,184	150
Glenn	1,994	2,221	-227
Lehman	2,185	2,143	42
Lockhart	2,053	2,078	-25
La Grange	607	612	-5
Smithville	531	555	-24
Salado	842	721	121
Burnet	985	1,014	-29
Marble Falls	1,172	1,102	70
Jarrell	1,147	951	196
Taylor	968	1,168	-200
Lago Vista	647	673	-26
Manor New Tech	728	605	123
Legacy Ranch	1,048	648	400
Austin Eastside	594	694	-100
Austin Travis	942	1,198	-256
Austin LBJ	741	773	-32
Austin Achieve	620	628	-8
Austin Northeast	961	1,126	-165
Wimberley	859	855	4
Fredericiksburg	1,017	1,047	-30
New Braunfels Long Creek	1,585	1,135	450
Blanco	349	358	-9
Llano	510	524	-14
Florence	348	364	-16
Lexington	301	354	-53
Thrall	293	274	19
Granger	188	156	32
Thorndale	222	204	18
McDade	115	110	5
Bartlett	125	142	-17
Holland	173	185	-12

This list will be updated as more numbers become available and shared with the Austin Sports Journal.