The last Friday in October falls on the 30th and makes a late “Snapshot” date for the Texas Education Agency and the UIL. The UIL uses the enrollment data for that day to realign the Texas high school classes one through five A. Throughout the 90’s and early 2000’s rural Texas school lost population in historical numbers. The trend seems to have slowed and this should mean that the classification numbers should not change much unless the UIL has a policy change. The twenty to thirty schools (bubble schools) just above or just below the 2007 enrollment cutoff lines will determine who goes and who stays. For instance the top end cut off for AA two years ago was 429. Anahuac turned in 412 in 2007 and Tatum turned in 443. Anahuac stayed down and Tatum went up. Friends from Anahuac to me they were at 407 this week and friends at Tatum reported 435. The cut off number should stay within approximately 1% *of the current 429 (425-434) and the bottom line should reflect similar numbers in a range of 198-202.

2008-2009 & 2009-2010
5A 2085 & up
4A 980 to 2084
3A 430 to 979
2A 200 to 429
1A 199 & below
99.9 & below

* I have not made an in-depth study.

Had you made an in-depth study you might have found out that the snapshot date is this week.
With your experience you have bound to have picked up some influence with the UIL. Use it to suggest that 2 schools go in D1 and 1 in D2.

I'm not all that crazy about 4 teams in the playoffs; however, I'm against the concept. I genuinely like the idea of having a true division one and a true division two. When you get your 124 playoff teams play the top 112 in enrollments in DI and the bottom 112 enrollments in DII. Last year with three teams qualifying the cut off would have been an enrollment of 312. 47 schools with an enrollment between 313 and 229 would have played in DI and 47 with and enrollment between 200 and 312 would have competed for DII. Last year the regions were very similar.
Region DI DII
I 13 11
II 11 13
III 10 11
IV 12 12
Daingerfield was the 20th largest school in the AA and won DII and Muleshoe was the 26th largest and won DI. I think dividing the playoff teams by enrollment would only be fair.
At a glance last year’s match ups probably would have been Muleshoe vs. Daingerfield and Cisco vs. Arp. Those would not have been bad.

I didn't say anything about 4 schools going to play-offs in 3A or 2A. This is the 3A thread.
Example Carthage and Jasper both go D1. and Chapel Hill and Gilmer both go D1.
If either Jasper or Chill don't make it then Carthage or Gilmer go D1 now. If not they go D2
If only one school went in D2 then one would truely have the small schools in D2.