1. The League office shall obtain enrollment data on participant schools (grades 9-12).
2. Students who are officially designated as having multiple disabilities may be excluded from the enrollment
figures submitted for reclassification purposes.
3. The League office shall verify (through TEA) the enrollment figures submitted by the schools.
4. Conference AAAAA should consist of a minimum of 220 schools and a maximum of 245 schools participating
in football (depending on how many new schools there are next alignment period); Conferences AA through
AAAA should consist of a number of schools such that the enrollment ratio in grades 9-12 between the largest
school and the smallest school is approximately 2.0. There should be at least 200 schools each in Conferences
AA and AAAA. Conference A shall consist of all schools that are not in Conferences AA-AAAAA.
5. Schools with an enrollment of 99.9 or lower may choose to participate in six-man football or may opt to play
eleven-man football but remain in the smaller division for basketball and spring meet (see #7 below). If
enrollment in grades 9-12 is greater than 99.9 and the school is currently playing six-man football, it may
continue to participate if any one of these three conditions exists: Enrollment of 99.9 or below in Grades 7, 8, 9
and 10, or grades 8, 9, 10 and 11, or grades 9 and 10 doubled.
6. Any school may request to be elevated one conference for extreme travel or in multiple-high school districts of
eight or more schools, provided notification is submitted to the League office simultaneously with enrollment
figures.
7. After determining the enrollment cut-off figures, Conference A schools will be further divided by enrollment
figures for spring meet activities and basketball. Then map pins are used to represent all schools in a
conference and both divisions of Conference A. Schools are placed into districts keeping the following criteria
in mind:
a. Group geographically contiguous schools in groups of no more than ten and place in districts with an even
number of schools, except when that action causes an extreme travel hardship. Schools in a district in
urban areas may not always be contiguous.
b. Except in Conference A, there are 32 districts to facilitate the playoff procedures (except in activities that
do not have enough schools).
c. Multiple-high school districts with more than one school in the same conference will have those schools
assigned as follows.
(1) Multiple High School Districts with 11 or More Schools in the Same Conference: A multiple high
school district with 11 or more schools in the same conference shall have its schools assigned to two
or more UIL districts. Any UIL district resulting from this division with seven or fewer schools from
the same ISD in it may have additional schools assigned to the UIL district by the League office.
(2) Multiple High School Districts with Seven or Fewer Schools in the Same Conference: A multiple high
school district with seven or fewer schools in the same conference shall have its schools assigned to
the same UIL district. Other schools may also be assigned to this UIL district by the League office.
(3) Multiple High School Districts with Schools in Different Conferences: A multiple high school district
of eight or more schools may opt to have one or more of its schools elevated one conference if it wants
its schools to be assigned to the same UIL district.
(4) Multiple High School Districts with schools in more than one conference, one of which is a magnet
school. A multiple high school district with schools in more than one conference, one of which is a
magnet school, shall have the magnet school placed in the same conference as the high school in that
school district with the largest enrollment. A magnet school is defined as a high school within a
multiple high school district where all students participate in the magnet curriculum.
(5) EXCEPTION: Exceptions to the above may be made when agreed upon by all participating schools
and approved by the District Assignment Review Committee.
d. If a school district with only one high school opens a second high school with the same attendance
boundaries as its primary high school, the enrollment of both schools will be combined to determine
conference placement for the primary school.