In 2019, the school district was rated as a "B" by the Texas Education Agency.

The district established a plan to racially integrate; the board of trustees approved such a plan in 1965, eleven years after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

[4] In 1982, Tyler ISD was party to the Supreme Court Case Plyler v. Doe, which overturned its 1977 policy of charging an annual $1,000 tuition fee to undocumented immigrant children to compensate for the funding lost when the state of Texas prohibited the use of state funds for children who had not been legally admitted to the country.

[5] The landmark case concerned whether the Equal Protection Clause could be applied to undocumented immigrants.

This facility houses a small number of information technology staff and serves as a large training facility for Tyler ISD faculty and staff.