by Jordan Herrera | Staff Writer
With increasing school size, the state of Texas is creating of new conference for UIL events. 6A begins next year, and Johnson will be a part of it.
“The addition of the 6A conference won’t do much to us,” Band Director Jared Lipman said. “Our competitors will still be our competitors and speaking placement wise, everything will be the same, the change should only affect smaller schools who are moving up, or those smaller schools that before had huge schools in their district.”
Previously Johnson was a 5A school, alongside other NEISD schools such as Regan, Madison, Churchill and many more, all who will also be making the jump to 6A.
“Not much is going to be different,” Football coach Kelly Parker said, “We’re the same team, with the same competitors, just with a different number by our name.”
The requirements for the change into 6A are based on student populations, exactly like any other UIL cutoff. The numbers for UIL cutoff are listed below.
Class 6A: 2,100 and above
Class 5A: 1,060 to 2,090
Class 4A: 456 to 1,059
Class 3A: 220 to 464
Class 2A: 105 to 219
Class A: 104 and below
Class divisions
4A Division I: 688 to 1,059
4A Division II: 465 to 685
3A Division I: 315 to 464
3A Division II: 220 to 314
2A Division I: 153 to 219
2A Division II: 105 to 157
A Division I: 55 to 104
A Division II: 54 and below
The new 6A UIL cutoff won’t do much for students of Johnson academics and athletics will just be realigned, with the schools we’re used to competing against still in our category.
“The 6A cutoff, is simply just a name change for us,” Counselor Carri Elliott said. “Not much will change for anything here at Johnson”
