[2] The unincorporated communities served include Dolen, Hightower, Rayburn, and Tarkington Prairie.
In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.
[4] The area that now constitutes the Tarkington Independent School District was settled in 1826 when the first settlers purchased land from the Mexican government and became ranchers.
Tarkington Prairie settlers wanted their children to have a good education, so they built several different schools with colorful names such as Box Island, Little Flock, and Pelican.
The old school building destroyed by fire in 1937 still stands in east Tarkington on County Road 2296.