High Island and UIL?????

[Merlin]

22 hours ago, pine curtain said:

High Island has a total of 120 students. that is less than 10 students per grade.

They could be assorbed with little to no change in the school other than added bus routes too High island.

The state pays 6200 per student so without county or local funding EC would receive almost 750,000 a year for those kids.

The cost of building and running a new school is some of the reason some of the small schools should be shut down.

Small schools like that cost the tax payers lots of money with little return.

Lots of towns already bus kids more that 15 miles everyday and it works just fine..

[pine curtain]

17 minutes ago, Merlin said:

They have 120 at the HS and 370 in the district. Still small but not 10 per grade.  I had to go there for an event a few months ago. It would seem they are much more focused on Academics/Theater and not Athletics. The hallway is lined up with regional/state championship trophies from those events the last several years.

According to UIL they have 43.

120 would put them at the 2A level

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[Merlin]

Had a moment and confused HI with Sabine Pass. Tried to delete but wasn’t fast enough.

[pieman3700]

On 5/12/2026 at 12:16 PM, pine curtain said:

High Island has a total of 120 students. that is less than 10 students per grade.

They could be assorbed with little to no change in the school other than added bus routes too High island.

The state pays 6200 per student so without county or local funding EC would receive almost 750,000 a year for those kids.

The cost of building and running a new school is some of the reason some of the small schools should be shut down.

Small schools like that cost the tax payers lots of money with little return.

Lots of towns already bus kids more that 15 miles everyday and it works just fine.

your math is not their math. neither is your logic. but understandable from the outside looking in. 

[pieman3700]

21 hours ago, pine curtain said:

HI doesn't have the tax base to be self sustained so the state has to make up the difference.

So yes....... 

thats not true. in fact because of robinhood they give money back to the state. they have high dollar beach homes and some oil that they are very self sustainable. the improvement on the buildings and modernizing is their only issue which they are correcting. you are misinformed and your simple google searches arent helping. 

[pieman3700]

3 hours ago, pine curtain said:

According to UIL they have 43.

120 would put them at the 2A level

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43 in high school. those are the UIL snapshot numbers. 

[purpleeagle]

On 5/1/2026 at 7:37 PM, pine curtain said:

Some of these small schools need to merge with the next closest town.

It is a long ways to Winnie and not muck in the way of student age kids on the coast or Bolivar pen.