For the 2021–2022 school year, the district received a "C" from the Texas Education Agency.
In 1894 the college was briefly sold to Cyril M. Jansky and Marion Kiline before operations were returned to Crow.
The college was officially closed in 1901 after being sold to the public schools of Willis County.
[7] In 2013, an individual sued the district in federal court, accusing it of ignoring a teacher sex abuse case.
[9] In 2024, the Willis ISD board of trustees approved a bond consisting of four propositions that each addressed concerns about the district's future growth.
[10] Willis ISD community members voted in May to approve Proposition A to build a 9th-grade expansion to the high school, a new transportation center, and parking lot upgrades to the high school.