[2] In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.
[3] The district had its own high school until the 1920s after a fire destroyed its designated building.
[4] In the summer of 2016 the district had 330 students scheduled to attend beginning in the fall.
The high school was scheduled to re-open, for the first time in many years, on August 23, 2016 with grades 7-10.
As of 2016[update] the school uses the athletic property of TRIBE Consolidated Athletics as its home American football stadium since McDade ISD had not yet built its own football facilities.