Texhoma Public Schools seeking agricultural education teacher for 2026-27

Texhoma Public Schools is looking to fill an Agricultural Education Teacher opening for the 2026-27 school year, a hire that carries weight far beyond one classroom in a small Panhandle district. The school’s homepage and careers page both make the need plain, and the district is asking applicants to send a resume, teacher certification and application to Superintendent Tom Schroeder, Principal Tammie Breeden or Athletic Director Greg Higgins.

In Texhoma, that job sits at the center of a pipeline that reaches students who want careers in production agriculture, agribusiness and other agricultural-related work. Oklahoma CareerTech says agricultural education is offered in 369 high schools statewide, and Oklahoma FFA describes FFA as an intracurricular student organization that is one of the three parts of agricultural education. At Texhoma Public Schools, that structure appears to already be active: the district’s staff directory lists Lara Barger as FFA staff, and the school website continues to post FFA and livestock-related events for 2025 and 2026.

That makes the vacancy more than a routine personnel posting. In a district tied closely to the agricultural economy of Texas County, the next ag teacher will help determine whether students continue to have access to supervised projects, leadership activities and hands-on preparation that connect school to life after graduation. For families who expect those classes to keep running, the open position raises the practical question of whether the district can keep specialized instruction in place without interruption.

The stakes are easy to see in the county around Texhoma. Texas County had 21,384 residents in the 2020 Census and an estimated 20,322 residents on July 1, 2025. U.S. Department of Agriculture county-profile data show 1,094,877 acres in farms in 2017, with 89% of sales from livestock, poultry and products and 168,841 irrigated acres. A county agriculture summary says Texas County’s total commodity sales reached $1.2 billion in the 2022 Census of Agriculture, the highest total in Oklahoma. In a place where agriculture is foundational, keeping an ag teacher in the building helps protect a local workforce pipeline that starts with students and ends with farms, ranches and related businesses.

Texhoma itself underscores why the hire matters. The town sits on the Texas-Oklahoma border and had a 2020 population of 856. In a community that small, one specialized teacher can shape multiple student activities, competitions and career pathways at once, which is why filling this opening will matter well beyond the first day of school in 2026-27.