It has been cited by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's Top High Schools.
The high school has less than 60 students yet offers programs in nursing, commercial mechanics and fabrication and mass-media production.
Former teacher George Schaade (retired) was given the UIL Sponsor Excellence Award for his unprecedented accomplishment of having his current events team advance to the state academic meet ten times.
Apple Springs was the first public school in Deep East Texas to play the wide-open sport of Six-Man football.
A neighboring school, Hudson ISD is the largest district in the state without a football team, but has an award-winning band program.