I get some version of this question almost every week now: "What's the deal with the new high school?

Usually it comes from a family a few neighborhoods deep into a search who has heard "Driftwood Springs" mentioned by an agent or a neighbor and has no real idea what it means for them.

So here is the plain version. What the school is called, where it sits, when it opens, and what is still genuinely undecided, including the one thing I cannot tell you yet no matter how many times you ask.

The name is official

On May 18, 2026, the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees voted 6 to 1 to name the district's second comprehensive high school Driftwood Springs High School.

Two names made it to the final round: Driftwood High School and Driftwood Springs High School. The board went with Driftwood Springs, keeping the "Springs" naming pattern used across the district's other campuses.

If you hear someone call it "Driftwood High School," they are talking about the same building. That was the other finalist, and it still comes up in conversation around town. The name on the building will read Driftwood Springs.

Where it sits and when it opens

The new campus is under construction off Darden Hill Road, east of Cypress Springs Elementary, in the Driftwood area of the district.

It is scheduled to open for the 2028 to 2029 school year and will be DSISD's tenth campus overall and its second comprehensive high school.

At roughly 506,000 square feet, it is built to serve 2,500 students in grades 9 through 12.

What is actually going in

The campus plans include baseball and softball fields, tennis courts, two practice fields, a band practice lot, and an agriculture barn, along with a sub-varsity competition stadium on site.

One detail worth knowing if you have a future athlete: there is no varsity football stadium planned for this campus. Varsity football games and graduation ceremonies are expected to continue at Tiger Stadium, the same as they do today for Dripping Springs High School.

Why the district needed a second high school

This is not a nice to have. Dripping Springs High School currently serves more than 2,500 students on a campus built for far fewer, and even with portables on site, projections show it outgrowing capacity around 2028.

The new campus was approved as part of the district's May 2023 bond package, with an estimated project cost of roughly $298.8 million. That is district infrastructure funded by a bond voters already passed, not a new tax layered on top of what you see on a listing today.

Colors are set. The mascot is not, yet.

At a June 22, 2026 meeting, the board confirmed the school's official colors: navy blue and gold.

The mascot is a different story. Wolves has been the name floated by the district's naming and branding committee since spring, but as of this writing it has not come back to the board for a final vote. If you see "Driftwood Springs Wolves" somewhere, treat it as the leading contender, not a done deal, until the district confirms it.

Here is the part I want to be honest about: boundaries

This is the question every family actually wants answered, and it is the one nobody can answer yet.

DSISD has not published final attendance boundaries for the new high school. Nobody, including me, can tell you today which elementary and middle school feeder patterns will land at Driftwood Springs versus staying at Dripping Springs High School once it opens for 2028-29.

What I can tell you is what the district has said publicly: the new campus is meant to relieve the east side of the district, and it sits in the Driftwood area off Darden Hill Road. If a specific address matters to your decision right now, the only source I trust is dsisdtx.us, and I check it before I ever put a boundary claim in front of a client.

Should this change where you buy today?

If you are buying in 2026 or 2027 for a kindergartener, it is a fair question whether that child starts at Dripping Springs High School and finishes at Driftwood Springs, or the reverse. I do not have a certain answer, and anyone who tells you they do is guessing.

What I tell my families is this. Every campus in DSISD sits inside the same A-rated district, in the top 10 percent of Texas districts. You are not choosing between a good school and a bad one. You are choosing between two versions of the same district's standards, with a boundary line that has not been drawn yet.

So buy for the community and the commute you actually want. When the boundary map publishes, I will walk you through exactly what it means for your address. That is a conversation I would rather have with real information in front of us than a guess today.

How I help

I am not going to pretend I have inside information the district has not released. Here is what I actually do.

When boundaries publish, I will know within days, and any client I am working with gets that information directly, not secondhand through a listing sheet.

Until then, I build your shortlist around the district as a whole, the community feel, the commute, and the budget, not around a boundary guess that could be wrong.

And I represent you start to close. Not the seller, not the builder. Just you, with real information in front of us.

The next step

If you are weighing a move to Dripping Springs and the schools are part of that decision, the honest answer today is that DSISD's reputation holds across both campuses, and the specific boundary lines are still coming.

Grab the free Moving to Dripping Springs guide for the full picture of all 29 communities, or book a free 20 minute call and I will talk through what is known, and what is not, for your specific situation.

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