JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas –
The University Interscholastic League announced via email Feb. 3 its football and basketball reclassification and realignment for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years.
UIL district realignment is tentative since schools have until Feb. 13 to appeal against the change.
In the announcement, Stacey High School at JBSA-Lackland will move up to Class 2A after being in Class A for the past two years.
Stacey's district opponents will be essentially the same. Stacey is currently in basketball District 28-A, Division I with San Antonio Gervin Academy, Brackett, La Pryor and Charlotte.
In the new realignment, Class A Divisions I and II will be eliminated and District 28-A will become District 29-2A. San Antonio Hawkins will be added as a new opponent to replace Charlotte, which is reassigned to another district.
"We were actually kind of surprised about the realignment," said Amber Greeness, Stacey High School athletic director. "UIL had passed a new regulation moving charter schools up to a classification similar to the district they reside in. We were surprised to find two charter schools (Gervin and Hawkins) in our alignment.
"We were also surprised we lost Charlotte but kept Brackettville and La Pryor," Greeness added. "The latter two schools are both a pretty good drive from here (San Antonio) and Charlotte was only 35 minutes."
Greeness also said Stacey's current district has always been fairly competitive and did not expect that to change after the realignment.
Schools are assigned to classifications based on student population. The Class 2A student cutoff is 105 to 209, which is determined by the UIL, the governing body for Texas high school athletics and academics.
A number of schools simply moved up in the reorganization as the UIL added a new top classification, 6A, after assigning schools with 6-man football teams to Class A.