Several Houston-area teams will be more than mildly affected by the 2010-2012 district realignment announced by the University Interscholastic League this morning.  Here are some of the changes:

• Class 5A Region II: Kingwood and Atascocita will move from Region III to join the Conroe ISD schools and Lufkin in District 14-5A.
• Cy Fair ISD schools move from Region II back to Region III to form one of two 10-team superdistricts in the region (along with Fort Bend ISD)
• Three of the four Spring Branch ISD schools drop from Class 5A to 4A. Stratford, Northbrook and Spring Woods will join the Magnolia ISD schools, Waller, Brenham and Montgomery in 17-4A.
• Memorial, the lone remaining Spring Branch ISD 5A school, will join the six Katy ISD schools and Strake Jesuit to make up District 19-5A.
• Alief ISD (three schools) and Aldine ISD (four schools) will compose arguably the most geographically-awkward district, 18-5A.
• Deer Park and La Porte, natural geographic rivals, are in separate districts for the first time in recent memory.
• HISD Westbury moves back from 4A to 5A to join other HISD schools in District 20-5A.
• Baytown Lee drops from 5A to 4A.
• Pearland moves back to 24-5A from 22-5A, replacing Galveston Ball, who drops to 4A.
• Humble and New Caney drop from 5A to District 18-4A with Caney Creek, Huntsville, Kingwood Park, Willis and new schools Summer Creek and Porter.
• Angleton and Brazosport will relocate to 23-4A to join the five other teams: Bay City, El Campo, Foster, Lamar Consolidated and Terry.

We’ll go in-depth this week with some analysis as to how some of these changes may affect the district races.  Stay tuned for updates…