The district serves a 486-square-mile (1,260 km2) area that covers most of Aransas County, including the city of Rockport, the town of Fulton, and the unincorporated communities of Holiday Beach and Lamar.
The first public school in Aransas County was instituted in 1884 where the Rockport city water tower once stood.
On May 17, 1907, four girls and two boys graduated from the Rockport High School in a ceremony held at the Bailey Pavilion, built over the water across from where the Wells Fargo Bank now stands.
In 1957 Fulton Elementary School opened; and in 1988 an additional building on the south side of the existing campus was completed.
Its repairs were not yet completed, and as such its Pre-K and Kindergarten students attended Live Oak Learning Center, the district's school for first and second graders.
[10] Later, Aransas County would buy the land using a $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration as part of a partnership with Del Mar College to transform the site into the Aransas County Workforce Development Center in January 2021.