The district operates Dell City School, which covers grades Kindergarten through 12 and serves students in northern Hudspeth County.

As of 2007, the Texas State Energy Conservation Office awards Dell City ISD money due to the colonias served by the district.

[3] It was named after a longtime teacher (born August 17, 1899 in San Saba, Texas) who became superintendent and principal at the same time while also teaching the 5th grade.

Grebing arrived in Dell City on January 1, 1950 and began teaching the population since Sierra Blanca decided not to send another teacher there.

The movement to form a Dell City district caused turmoil in board members of Sierra Blanca as they were afraid the loss of population would mean the district would no longer be accredited to teach high school, and the El Paso Times wrote that Sierra Blanca ISD superintendent William F. Wallace "was reported to have resigned because of the controversy.

Jessica Onsurez of the Carlsbad Current-Argus interviewed a town resident who felt that Gomez should not have replaced older teachers with newer ones.

[10] Typical teachers who are hired are new teachers trying to gain experience, and by the time they have obtained such, due to the relative isolation of Dell City and low pay of Dell City ISD, they move back to their hometowns, most often El Paso, to be hired there.

The low tax base and enrollment means the district has less money to pay salaries, and teachers hired are often asked to take multiple roles.

[10] The Texas Virtual School Network provides online classes, such as circa 2016 when there was no secondary science teacher.

[9] The area of the former Cienega School in unincorporated Otero County, New Mexico is about 20 miles (32 km) from Dell City and about 100 miles (160 km) from Alamogordo, New Mexico; while it is in the Alamogordo Public Schools district boundaries, due to the respective distances the Alamogordo district has an agreement with Dell City ISD so the Dell City district could educate students from the Cienega area.