[3][4] Previously it was administratively divided between Big Bend High and Terlingua Elementary[5] (Grades K–8[6]).
[2] As of 2007, the Texas State Energy Conservation Office awards Terlingua ISD money due to the colonias served by the district.
[7] In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.
[8] In 1996 Sam Howe Verhovek of The New York Times wrote that "The district is still extremely poor, though it is growing".
[6] San Vicente began sending students to Big Bend High when it was established in 1996; San Vicente itself does not have enough of a taxation base, as of 1996, to establish its own high school.