Shrinking Towns...due to Private Schools???

Leman Saunders

Leman Saunders

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Heard Burnet HS has an enrollment of 105...meaning they could almost play six-man next year...don't know if it is true or not but...dang! Cause of it...opening up and transferring of kids to private schools...or so I've been told...

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Leman Saunders":1xsi224w said:
Heard Burnet HS has an enrollment of 105...meaning they could almost play six-man next year...don't know if it is true or not but...dang! Cause of it...opening up and transferring of kids to private schools...or so I've been told...

thoughts....this topic can go in many directions...ready set go!
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Are you sure you didn't HEAR that Burnet HS had a 105 come out for football? This would include Varsity, JV, and Freshman teams? If this is the case, and I suspect it is, then yes PARTICIPATION would be down. If this school truly has close to 6 man numbers and playing another year at the 3a level they did pretty good opening up with a win over Fredericksburg 40-27 last night.
 
Unless someone opened Burnet Private School Prep in the last couple days, I haven't heard of any private school in that area growing exponentially recently.

Closest private school is in Marble Falls, about 15 miles away. Otherwise, it's about 40 to 60 miles to next closest schools in Georgetown, Round Rock, Austin or Fredericksburg.

My guess is the 105 number is football turnout, which may be a bit low based on the UIL number of 951 enrollment (from DCTF).
 
I heard that Bigfoot lived under the Burnet field house, and THAT is why nobody wants to play football there anymore.


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There are several school ho are now going to be on that bubble. Booker, Shamrock, Springlake-Earth, Morton, Crosby, Smyer, Wink, Iraan, Bronte, Menard, Cross Plains, Gorman, Roscoe, Roby, Baird, Munday, Frost, Union Hill, Burkeville, Burton (This is the school that caused the confusion. Burton not Burnet), Runge, D'Hanis, Rocksprings, Leakey, Medina. All of these schooll have posted enrollments from 76-108' so the option is there.
 
coachsatcher":1fgxr61h said:
There are several school ho are now going to be on that bubble. Booker, Shamrock, Springlake-Earth, Morton, Crosby, Smyer, Wink, Iraan, Bronte, Menard, Cross Plains, Gorman, Roscoe, Roby, Baird, Munday, Frost, Union Hill, Burkeville, Burton (This is the school that caused the confusion. Burton not Burnet), Runge, D'Hanis, Rocksprings, Leakey, Medina. All of these schooll have posted enrollments from 76-108' so the option is there.
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Several of those schools you mention are just west of San Antonio; primarily between San Antonio, Del Rio and IH 10 to the north; and some possibilities of non-football playing schools (Comstock and Tilden McMullen, although the latter is much farther south of that area) coming on board would be a significant factor in growth. There is a pretty sizable private school six-man contingent in the San Antonio area, so those schools would have a good choice of several non-district opponents with relatively short trips.

In fact, one group of parents who were (for now, unsuccessfully) promoting six-man football for their public school showed the school administration that the football team would have LESS travel than their basketball team; figuring only five trips for football -- and two or three of them to the San Antonio area for non-district and a couple somewhat longer (but still shorter than some basketball trips) runs for district games.

Although I welcome our former 11-man schools to the six-man game, I sure would rather see the growth come in that fairly sizeable group of public schools that aren't playing any football.
 

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