Texhoma schools set May 21 early release as last day of school

Texhoma families finished the school year with an early release window on May 21, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., after the district placed a Board of Education meeting on May 20 and teacher in-service on May 15. For parents planning pickups, buses and end-of-year routines, those dates marked the last practical turn of the 2025-2026 calendar.

The district’s homepage and events page both pointed to the same closeout schedule, confirming that May 21 was the last day of school. That matters in a town where school schedules ripple far beyond the campus gates, especially when families are juggling childcare, transportation and the final set of school-year obligations before summer begins.

Superintendent Kayla Yates is leading the district through the transition, with Cody Cartwright serving as board president, Heath Williams as vice president, Jessica Collins as secretary, and Amanda Crawford, Ed Reust, Jimmy Smith and Brady Mitchell on the board. The May 20 meeting gave trustees their formal stop before summer planning fully took over, at a point when district decisions can affect staffing, calendar coordination and the opening weeks of the next year.

Texhoma ISD is small enough that every calendar shift lands close to home. The National Center for Education Statistics lists the district as a PK-12 system with 142 students, 10.23 classroom teachers and a student-teacher ratio of 13.88 in the 2024-2025 school year. That scale helps explain why an early release or a board meeting can matter so much in daily family logistics.

Texhoma’s cross-border identity makes the school calendar even more complicated. The town sits on the Oklahoma-Texas line, and the Oklahoma Historical Society describes it as part of a bi-state educational arrangement shaped by that border. On the Oklahoma side, Texhoma Public Schools listed a separate May 2026 finish, with the last day of school on May 14, teacher in-service on May 15 and graduation on May 16. NCES lists that Oklahoma district with 190 students and 14.14 classroom teachers.

The contrast underscores how tightly school decisions are woven into life in Texhoma, whether a family lives in Sherman County, Texas, or Texas County, Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Historical Society also notes that the Texhoma School District enrolled 238 students in 2000, a reminder of how much smaller the district has become even as it continues to serve the same border community.