These two new schools gave the Blue Ridge District eleven members that year except in football, where Cave Spring remained in AAA and Hidden Valley played a limited, solely non-district schedule.
However, other schools objected because this alignment would have created a competitive imbalance in football with the prospective River Ridge District having stronger teams than the Blue Ridge District.
Eventually, a compromise sent the two southwest Roanoke County schools to the River Ridge and William Fleming High School of Roanoke, Virginia to the Blue Ridge.
In the 2007–2008 school year, the River Ridge District was moved into Region IV because many of the former Group AA member schools in the region had lost enrollment and dropped into Group A.
Each school will compete only against members of the same group classification in post-season play.