Texas splits 5A. The biggest schools are in one level; the smaller in the other.
My wife teaches for the Judson ISD. Even though we don’t live in that district; we had the choice of sending our son to Judson High School. For the football program. This was before they split Judson off to another high school.
Thing was - they had over 100 boys in the varsity squad alone. My kid was never gonna see playing time.
So we sent him to the high school in our district (5A) and he was in varsity for 3 years and a starter for two.
Great times...
That’s only in the playoffs in 3a, 4a, and 5a.