Frisco | March 2024

Education

BY HANNAH JOHNSON

Frisco ISD’s high schools will be split between three University Interscholastic League districts for most sports during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years. The UIL announced its 2024-26 district realignment, which deter- mines each Texas high school’s athletic conference for the next two years, on Feb. 1. The released alignments are for volleyball, basketball and football. Alignments for all other events will be released this spring, according to UIL. The background UIL splits enrollment classifi- cations for football into two divi- sions for 1-5A schools. Centennial, Frisco ISD to see new changes in UIL alignment

Frisco, Heritage, Lebanon Trail, Lone Star, Reedy and Wakeland high schools will compete in 5-5A Division I. The second district, 4-5A Division II, will include Emerson, Independence, Liberty and Memorial high schools. The details For basketball and volleyball, eight of FISD’s 5A high schools will compete in District 11: • Frisco • Centennial

• Emerson • Heritage

• Independence • Lebanon Trail • Liberty • Memorial

Lone Star, Reedy and Wakeland high schools will compete in Dis- trict 12 in Conference 5A. Panther Creek, which is the district’s only 4A high school, will compete in the conference’s District 9.

Determining classifications The classifications are determined by the number of students that attend a given school. The conference classifications are set for 2024-26. 6A 2,275+ students 3A 254-544 students 5A 1,315-2,274 students 2A 105-253 students 4A 545-1,314 students 1A 104 or less students

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Workers receive winter weather pay

Frisco ISD maintenance employees will receive premium pay for their work during the Jan. 13-15 freeze. The district’s board voted to give time and a half pay to employees who worked during last month’s winter storms during a Feb. 5 meeting. FISD campuses had pipes that needed to be serviced, and about 15 employees worked overnight to ensure the

district could open for classes, said Kimberly Smith, chief finance and strategy officer. “Because our maintenance staff did such a good job, we were able to open all campuses without any closures,” board member Stepha- nie Elad said. The background Board policy allows the district to pay time and a half.

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