Hays CISD Real Estate

Hays Consolidated ISD is the school district for Kyle and Buda, the two cities on I-35 between south Austin and San Marcos. It covers more than 221 square miles of north-central Hays County and runs 28 campuses, including three comprehensive high schools with a fourth under construction. Read more about Hays CISD homes, campuses and boundaries below.

Homes for Sale in the Hays Consolidated School District

2660 Elder Hill Road

$10,999,999

Driftwood, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 6005 Sqft, 32.66 Acres
Residential
Bramlett Partners

REDUCED

3118 La Ventana Parkway

$1,849,000

Driftwood, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 4404 Sqft, 1.23 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

14512 Graef Road

$1,495,000

Creedmoor, TX
7 Bed, 4 Bath, 2912 Sqft, 25.03 Acres
Residential
Olivos Group

583 W Overlook Mountain Road

$1,399,000

Buda, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 4839 Sqft, 1.9 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams - Lake Travis

2180 La Ventana Parkway

$1,389,000

Driftwood, TX
5 Bed, 7 Bath, 5279 Sqft, 1.05 Acres
Residential
Moreland Properties

REDUCED

119 Hidden Canyon Cove

$1,225,000

Driftwood, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3334 Sqft, 1.64 Acres
Residential
Magnolia Realty Austin Hill Co

REDUCED

850 Jerrys Lane

$1,225,000

Buda, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 4903 Sqft, 5.07 Acres
Residential
Lighthouse Premier Realty

1731 Nature View Loop

$1,187,500

Driftwood, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3621 Sqft, 1.72 Acres
Residential
Rooster Realty

REDUCED

301 Crystal Meadows Drive

$1,149,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2137 Sqft, 9.87 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

239 Whitney Run

$1,100,000

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3668 Sqft, 2.06 Acres
Residential
Asset Realty

REDUCED

152 Dawn Drive

$1,100,000

Kyle, TX
5 Bed, 6 Bath, 5202 Sqft, 0.35 Acres
Residential
Homesusa.com

1273 Ranchers Club Lane

$1,050,000

Driftwood, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 3294 Sqft, 1.85 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

REDUCED

303 Lavaca Drive

$1,039,900

Kyle, TX
5 Bed, 6 Bath, 5054 Sqft, 0.28 Acres
Residential
Homesusa.com

REDUCED

319 Lavaca Drive

$999,900

Kyle, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 4108 Sqft, 0.28 Acres
Residential
Homesusa.com

REDUCED

136 Dawn Drive

$999,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3956 Sqft, 0.35 Acres
Residential
Homesusa.com

REDUCED

8004 Niederwald Strasse

$980,000

Kyle, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 1300 Sqft, 19.76 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

401 Graef Road

$979,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 2176 Sqft, 10.33 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

421 Christian Springs Drive

$956,317

Kyle, TX
6 Bed, 7 Bath, 4035 Sqft, 0.21 Acres
Residential
First Texas Brokerage Company

REDUCED

246 Alpine Crossing Drive

$949,900

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3580 Sqft, 0.28 Acres
Residential
Homesusa.com

REDUCED

278 Alpine Crossing Drive

$949,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 4047 Sqft, 0.3 Acres
Residential
Homesusa.com

335 Lavaca Drive

$930,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3203 Sqft, 0.3 Acres
Residential
Homesusa.com

REDUCED

1501 & 1503 N Burleson Street

$925,000

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1541 Sqft, 1 Acre
Residential
Aston & Associates

REDUCED

181 Whitney Run

$919,000

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2886 Sqft, 1.75 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

229 Alpine Crossing Drive

$915,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3265 Sqft, 0.3 Acres
Residential
Homesusa.com

168 Rockport Drive

$899,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3224 Sqft, 0.3 Acres
Residential
Homesusa.com

REDUCED

211 Pintail Street

$899,000

Kyle, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 4182 Sqft, 1.5 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

REDUCED

28 Country Oaks Drive

$895,000

Buda, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 3000 Sqft, 3.39 Acres
Residential
Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty

REDUCED

212 Comanche Camp

$895,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2316 Sqft, 3.25 Acres
Residential
High Cotton Realty

REDUCED

744 W Bartlett Drive

$875,000

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 3001 Sqft, 2.08 Acres
Residential
Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty

1238 Little Bear Road

$875,000

Buda, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 3212 Sqft, 1.27 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

10183 Brangus Road

$875,000

Driftwood, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2851 Sqft, 1.51 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

REDUCED

13615 Copperleaf Trail

$860,000

Manchaca, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3441 Sqft, 1.27 Acres
Residential
Estrella Real Estate

177 Farmer Brook Lane

$841,750

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3610 Sqft, 0.23 Acres
Residential
Highland Homes Realty

504 Buckaroo Trail

$829,900

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2268 Sqft, 2.29 Acres
Residential
Era Experts

1000 Heidenreich Lane

$825,000

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2710 Sqft, 6.11 Acres
Residential
Real Estate Executives Of Aus

REDUCED

2285 Nature View Loop

$825,000

Driftwood, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2688 Sqft, 1.51 Acres
Residential
Central Real Estate Group

498 Vale Run

$824,900

Kyle, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 3593 Sqft, 0.19 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

REDUCED

429 Tinctoria Creek Drive

$816,714

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3032 Sqft, 0.21 Acres
Residential
Highland Homes Realty

331 Mourning Dove Lane

$815,000

Buda, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 3364 Sqft, 2.58 Acres
Residential
Coldwell Banker Realty

370 Tinctoria Creek Drive

$802,655

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3048 Sqft, 0.21 Acres
Residential
Highland Homes Realty

REDUCED

149 Bedford Run

$799,900

Kyle, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 3619 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

417 Lost Tree Drive

$796,140

Buda, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 4052 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Castlerock Realty, Llc

500 Owl Hollow Road

$795,000

San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2080 Sqft, 13.8 Acres
Residential
Texas Crossway Realty , Llc

REDUCED

311 Oak Forest Cove

$784,000

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2562 Sqft, 2.52 Acres
Residential
Lacey Oak Realty

190 Bedford Run

$751,900

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2895 Sqft, 0.19 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

700 Oak Grove Road

$750,000

San Marcos, TX
19.97 Acres
Residential
Lacey Oak Realty

REDUCED

448 Vale Run

$749,900

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3396 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

REDUCED

351 Pigeon River Road

$744,990

Kyle, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 4440 Sqft, 0.28 Acres
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc

About Hays CISD

Where the District Is

The district is based in Kyle and takes in Kyle, Buda, the small cities of Mountain City, Hays, Uhland and Niederwald, and a great deal of unincorporated Hays County on both sides of the interstate. It also reaches past the county line. A strip of southern Travis County, including some Austin- and Manchaca-addressed property, is Hays CISD rather than Austin ISD, and the eastern edge runs into Caldwell County. On the south end, the Blanco Vista subdivision carries a San Marcos address but sits inside the district.

Two ZIP codes cover most of it, 78640 for Kyle and 78610 for Buda, but neither is a reliable guide to the district line, which follows neither city limits nor postal routes. Austin ISD adjoins Hays CISD to the north, Lockhart ISD to the east, San Marcos CISD to the south, and Wimberley ISD and Dripping Springs ISD to the west; the full regional picture is on our Austin area school districts page. The "consolidated" in the name dates from 1967, when the Buda and Kyle districts merged. It is now the largest district based in Hays County, with more than 25,000 students as of August 2026 and roughly 1,000 added each year since 2018.

West of I-35 the land rises toward the Hill Country, with acreage tracts where well water and septic are common; east of it the ground flattens into prairie. Both cities keep an older core of homes on a street grid, but most of what is for sale at any given time is new construction or first resale in master-planned communities built since the late 1990s, several of which have a district campus inside them.

Schools in the District

Hays CISD counts 28 campuses: 17 elementary schools, six middle schools, three comprehensive high schools, Live Oak Academy, an application-based accelerated high school of choice for grades 10 through 12, and an alternative campus. Campus pages and the printable district map are on the district's site.

• Elementary, PreK-5: Cullen, Fuentes, Hemphill, Kyle, Negley, Ramage, Science Hall and Tobias on the Kyle side; Buda, Carpenter Hill, Elm Grove, Pfluger, Sunfield and Tom Green on the Buda side; and three that carry other postmarks: Uhland Elementary in Uhland, Camino Real Elementary in Niederwald and Blanco Vista Elementary in San Marcos
• Middle, grades 6-8: Chapa, Simon and Wallace with Kyle addresses; Barton, Dahlstrom and McCormick with Buda addresses
• High, grades 9-12: Hays High School (opened 1968) and Johnson High School (2019), both with Buda addresses, and Lehman High School (2004) in Kyle; a fourth, not yet named, is under construction on S. Turnersville Road in Buda

For 2026-27, Hays and Johnson compete in UIL Class 6A and Lehman in Class 5A. Each high school has its own attendance zone; there is no single-high-school design here, so which one an address feeds is a live question.

How the Feeder Pattern Works

Elementary, middle and high school zones are drawn separately, so a street can be moved at one level without moving at another. As the district set it when Johnson opened, Barton and Wallace middle schools feed Hays High School, Chapa and Simon feed Lehman, and Dahlstrom and McCormick feed Johnson, and the high school lines have not changed since. In broad strokes, Hays takes the west side of Kyle and the land between the two cities, Lehman the east side of Kyle, and Johnson takes Buda on both sides of I-35. The only reliable answer for a given house is the district's interactive attendance-zone map, which takes an address lookup, and even that comes with a caveat: campuses at capacity can be capped, with new arrivals assigned to the next campus with room.

Communities in Hays CISD

• Kyle — the district's headquarters city and its largest, with Plum Creek on the east side of I-35 and Anthem, which has Cullen Elementary inside it, on the west
• Buda — the north end of the district, where Sunfield has its own elementary campus and the fourth high school is going in nearby
• Blanco Vista — a San Marcos address inside Hays CISD, with an elementary campus on site
• Uhland, Niederwald, Mountain City and Hays — small incorporated cities inside the district
• Manchaca and the Travis County line — split between Austin ISD and Hays CISD by address

Boundaries, Transfers and Change

This is a district that adds campuses and redraws lines regularly, which is the main thing to know before paying for a specific school zone. A fourth comprehensive high school, built for 2,800 students, is under construction in the northeast corner of the district near Sunfield. The district's current target is the 2030-31 school year, a year later than when voters approved it in May 2025, and it has no name and no attendance zone yet; drawing that zone will mean redrawing the high school map across the district. An 18th elementary, also unnamed and also near Sunfield, is funded and could open as early as August 2028, with its zone drawn the fall before. A seventh middle school has design money but no construction funding; a trustee has said it is expected to be part of a 2027 bond proposal, and no bond has been called.

Smaller adjustments happen most years. The 2026-27 changes moved a few Buda neighborhoods between elementary and middle schools and left every high school zone alone, and students already enrolled could stay at their campus through its last grade, without district transportation. The district also runs an in-district transfer process and, beginning in 2026-27, accepts applications from students who live outside its boundaries, subject to program rules. Both go through the district's registration page, and the answer for a given campus in a given year is not something a real estate page can promise.

For Buyers

Postmarks mislead here in both directions. A Kyle 78640 address can be in Uhland or Niederwald, an Austin or Manchaca address on the Travis County side can be in Hays CISD, and a San Marcos address in Blanco Vista is. When two sources disagree about a street, one is usually reading the ZIP code and the other the district map.

A name-only search will miss inventory. The district's large communities list under phase and section names in the MLS, so "Sunfield" or "Plum Creek" alone will not return everything in Sunfield or Plum Creek. Search by school district and ZIP code together, or ask us to run it properly.

Carrying costs vary more than list prices suggest. Many of the newer communities sit inside a MUD or a PID, dues can run at more than one level, acreage on the west side may be on well and septic, and the district sets its own tax rate each year. Two homes at the same price can carry different monthly obligations. Read the median carefully as well: Kyle and Buda close a large volume of new construction every year, and a falling median often reflects what builders delivered that quarter rather than what an established home is worth.

Finally, verify your own address against the district's map, since boundaries change, campuses open and general descriptions go stale, including this one. If you would like one of our Hays CISD Realtors to check an address against the current zone maps and what is coming, reach out and we will set up a call.

By: Jim Olenbush
Area information last updated: August 2026