Changes coming to East Texas football districts following UIL bi-annual realignment

Christa Wood
·2 min read

KILGORE, Texas (KETK) – East Texas coaches and football players are looking forward to which district they will be in the next two years after the bi-annual UIL district realignment in Kilgore.

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The biggest changes we’ll see this fall is Longview is moving up from 5A-D1 to 6A, putting them in the same district as Tyler Legacy. Longview won their last state championship at the 6A level.

Pine Tree is moving out of 5A-D2 to 4A-D1, while Jacksonville will move up to 5A-D2 from 4A-D1. Canton will be moving out of a district with Carthage, Rusk, and Bullard, to playing mostly Dallas-area teams.

Below is an entire breakdown of the new districts concerning East Texas teams, from 6A all the way down to six-man.

6A

District 10

  • Forney

  • Longview

  • North Forney

  • Rockwall

  • Rockwall Heath

  • Royse City

  • Tyler Legacy

5A – D1

District 7

  • Burleson Centennial

  • Cleburne

  • Dallas Highland Park

  • Joshua

  • Lufkin

  • Midlothian

  • Red Oak

  • Tyler

5A – D2

District 7

  • Hallsville

  • Jacksonville

  • Marshall

  • Mount Pleasant

  • Nacogdoches

  • Texas High

  • Whitehouse

4A – D1

District 7

  • Aubrey

  • Celina

  • Frisco Panther Creek

  • Lake Dallas

  • Nevada Community

  • Paris

  • Sulphur Springs

District 9

  • Henderson

  • Kilgore

  • Lindale

  • Pine Tree

  • Mabank

  • Palestine

  • Chapel Hill (Tyler)

4A – D2

District 6

  • Canton

  • Ferris

  • Kemp

  • Quinlan Ford

  • Sunnyvale

  • Wills Point

District 7

  • Gilmer

  • Spring Hill

  • Paris North Lamar

  • Pittsburg

  • Pleasant Grove

  • Van

District 8

  • Athens

  • Brownsboro

  • Bullard

  • Carthage

  • Center

  • Rusk

3A – D1

District 7

  • Commerce

  • Eustace

  • Malakoff

  • Mineola

  • Mount Vernon

  • Rains

  • Winnsboro

District 8

  • Atlanta

  • Gladewater

  • Sabine

  • Jefferson

  • Tatum

  • Liberty-Eylau

  • White Oak

District 9

  • Crockett

  • Diboll

  • Fairfield

  • Huntington

  • Palestine Westwood

  • Teague

3A – D2

District 9

  • Big Sandy

  • Edgewood

  • Grand Saline

  • Lone Oak

  • Paris Chisum

  • Pattonville Prairiland

  • Quitman

District 10

  • Daingerfield

  • De Kalb

  • Hooks

  • Hughes Springs

  • New Boston

  • Queen City

  • Redwater

District 11

  • Arp

  • Buffalo

  • New Diana

  • Elkhart

  • West Rusk

  • Troup

  • Winona

District 12

  • Anderson-Shiro

  • Kountze

  • New Waverly

  • Newton

  • Trinity

  • Warren

  • Woodville

2A – D1

District 8

  • Cayuga

  • Frankston

  • Kerens

  • Malakoff Cross Roads

  • Mildred

  • Price Carlisle

District 9

  • Alba-Golden

  • Bogata Rivercrest

  • Como-Pickton

  • Cooper

  • Honey Grove

  • Omaha Pewitt

  • Quinlan Boles

District 10

  • Beckville

  • Big Sandy

  • Elysian Fields

  • Union Grove

  • Harleton

  • Hawkins

  • Ore City

  • Waskom

District 11

  • Garrison

  • Hemphill

  • Joaquin

  • San Augustine

  • Shelbyville

  • Timpson

District 12

  • Centerville

  • Corrigan-Camden

  • Groveton

  • Hearne

  • Jewett Leon

  • Normangee

2A – D2

District 9

  • Celeste

  • Clarksville

  • Cumby

  • Detroit

  • Linden-Kildare

  • Maud

  • Simms Bowie

District 11

  • Alto

  • Cushing

  • Grapeland

  • Lovelady

  • Mount Enterprise

  • Overton

  • Tenaha

District 12

  • Colmesneil

  • Deweyville

  • Evadale

  • Sabine Pass

  • Saratoga West Hardin

  • West Sabine

  • Hull-Daisetta

1A – D1

District 10

  • Campbell

  • Gilmer Union Hill

  • Laird Hill Leveretts

  • Chapel

  • Saint Jo

  • Savoy

District 12

  • Apple Springs

  • Burkeville

  • Chester

  • High Island

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