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

REDUCED

161 Ketch Way

$202,999

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1380 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

186 Orange Flame Boulevard

$202,990

Kyle, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 1014 Sqft, 0.11 Acres
Residential
D.r. Horton, America's Builder

REDUCED

263 Railyard Drive

$200,000

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1344 Sqft, 0.22 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

NEW

2916 Brand Iron Drive

$200,000

San Marcos, TX
2 Bed, 3 Bath, 1274 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Real Broker, Llc

REDUCED

107 Friendship Oak Drive

$199,999

San Marcos, TX
2 Bed, 3 Bath, 1262 Sqft, 0.08 Acres
Residential
Fathom Realty

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743 Oak Meadows

$199,999

San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1120 Sqft, 1 Acre
Residential
Smart Link Realty

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1941 Amberwood Loop

$199,999

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1603 Sqft, 0.19 Acres
Residential
Coldwell Banker Realty

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238 Gypsum Valley Valley

$199,990

Maxwell, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 1198 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Realty Of America, Llc

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157a Harrison Crossing

$199,990

Uhland, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1093 Sqft, 0.08 Acres
Residential
D.r. Horton, America's Builder

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115a Auction Oak A

$199,000

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 1402 Sqft, 0.07 Acres
Residential
Texas Income Property

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439 Arnold Loop A

$199,000

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1339 Sqft, 0.09 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

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187 Ames Cove

$199,000

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1032 Sqft, 0.15 Acres
Residential
Helta Homes

NEW

110 Belinda Lane

$199,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1540 Sqft, 0.61 Acres
Residential
Den Property Group

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154 Ketch Way

$198,999

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1380 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

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718 Alamito Avenue

$198,999

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1380 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

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142a Harrison Crossing

$198,990

Uhland, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1094 Sqft, 0.08 Acres
Residential
D.r. Horton, America's Builder

137 Seven Seas Drive

$197,999

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1380 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

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258 Quail Ridge Drive

$197,900

Kyle, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 1216 Sqft, 0.44 Acres
Residential
Realty One Group Prosper

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162 Mendoza Lane

$195,000

Buda, TX
5 Bed, 2 Bath, 1692 Sqft, 0.39 Acres
Residential
Mile Realty Llc

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100 Cattle Bend

$195,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1792 Sqft, 1.06 Acres
Residential
Kifer Sparks Agency, Llc

231 Harrison Crossing A

$195,000

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1093 Sqft, 0.08 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

230b Harrison Crossing

$194,990

Uhland, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 995 Sqft, 0.08 Acres
Residential
D.r. Horton, America's Builder

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145b Harrison Crossing

$193,260

Uhland, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 995 Sqft, 0.08 Acres
Residential
D.r. Horton, America's Builder

181 B Harrison Crossing

$190,000

Uhland, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 995 Sqft, 0.08 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

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124 Bracken Lane

$190,000

Maxwell, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1432 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Coldwell Banker Realty

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139 Gabbro Gardens

$190,000

Maxwell, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 1363 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

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171 Seven Seas Drive

$189,999

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1500 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

417 Soapstone Pass

$189,900

San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1616 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Real Broker, Llc

144 Ketch Way

$185,999

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1200 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

REDUCED

116 Soapstone Pass

$185,000

Maxwell, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1568 Sqft, 0.11 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

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204 Regina Drive

$180,000

Buda, TX
3 Bed, 1 Bath, 866 Sqft, 0.42 Acres
Residential
Realty Of America, Llc

216 Dorchester Drive

$180,000

Uhland, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1309 Sqft, 0.12 Acres
Residential
Baemayr Realty Group, Llc

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119 Gambel Oak Way

$179,900

San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1442 Sqft, 0.08 Acres
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc

REDUCED

221 Ames Cove

$179,900

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1032 Sqft, 0.16 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

REDUCED

218 Boxcar Path

$165,000

Kyle, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 960 Sqft, 0.37 Acres
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc

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165 Quail Ridge Drive

$130,000

Kyle, TX
2 Bed, 1 Bath, 672 Sqft, 0.46 Acres
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc

208 Circle Drive

$125,000

Buda, TX
2 Bed, 1 Bath, 896 Sqft, 0.21 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

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