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, $500,000 - $600,000

REDUCED

281 Seaside Sparrow Way

$600,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2701 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Chesmar Homes

110 Comfort Drive

$599,999

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2524 Sqft, 0.19 Acres
Residential
Outlaw Realty

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206 San Saba Drive

$599,999

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2512 Sqft, 0.14 Acres
Residential
Outlaw Realty

REDUCED

194 Trout River Road

$599,900

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 3364 Sqft, 0.19 Acres
Residential
Lpt Realty Llc - Ascend Group

REDUCED

301 Carpenter Hill Drive

$599,900

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2440 Sqft, 0.2 Acres
Residential
Central Real Estate Group

REDUCED

821 Bella Vista Circle

$599,900

Kyle, TX
5 Bed, 3 Bath, 3254 Sqft, 0.75 Acres
Residential
Cypress Realty Of Texas, Llc

REDUCED

330 Humphrey Drive

$599,000

Buda, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2120 Sqft, 2.58 Acres
Residential
Orchard Brokerage

REDUCED

100 Grove Lane

$599,000

Buda, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2038 Sqft, 0.89 Acres
Residential
Encore Real Estate

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1620 S Turnersville Road

$599,000

Buda, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1413 Sqft, 1.96 Acres
Residential
Ts Realty

154 Christian Springs Drive

$595,990

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3176 Sqft, 0.14 Acres
Residential
First Texas Brokerage Company

194 Christian Springs Drive

$594,990

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3176 Sqft, 0.14 Acres
Residential
First Texas Brokerage Company

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144 Tinctoria Creek

$589,990

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2626 Sqft, 0.16 Acres
Residential
New Home Now

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434 Bay Breeze Drive

$589,900

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3393 Sqft, 0.16 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

REDUCED

221 Iron Creek Way

$585,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2721 Sqft, 0.22 Acres
Residential
Womack Real Estate Llc

REDUCED

221 Clearwater Way

$585,000

Kyle, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 2994 Sqft, 0.24 Acres
Residential
Realty One Group Prosper

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404 Jackson River Loop

$585,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 2593 Sqft, 0.19 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

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122 Stock Pond Trail

$581,122

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2822 Sqft, 0.2 Acres
Residential
Highland Homes Realty

310 Prickly Poppy Loop

$579,990

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2713 Sqft, 0.16 Acres
Residential
First Texas Brokerage Company

NEW

109 Wake Grove

$579,000

Buda, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 4102 Sqft, 0.21 Acres
Residential
Air Property Group

801 Jackson River Loop

$576,839

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2531 Sqft, 0.16 Acres
Residential
Highland Homes Realty

650 Wild Pecan Loop

$575,000

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3065 Sqft, 0.21 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

471 Diamondleaf Drive

$575,000

Buda, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 2985 Sqft, 0.26 Acres
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc

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177 Bedford Run

$574,900

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2776 Sqft, 0.24 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

260 Basket Flower Loop

$574,900

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2594 Sqft, 0.12 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

219 Baretta Loop

$574,900

Buda, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 4287 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Listingspark

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224 Maple Drive

$569,900

Mountain City, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 3000 Sqft, 0.89 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

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222 Primrose Drive

$569,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2481 Sqft, 0.66 Acres
Residential
Real Broker, Llc

165 Kapok Street

$565,000

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2575 Sqft, 0.18 Acres
Residential
Chesmar Homes

2800 Robin Road

$564,900

Manchaca, TX
5 Bed, 3 Bath, 2480 Sqft, 0.75 Acres
Residential
Casora Realty

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174 Stock Pond Trail

$564,174

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2914 Sqft, 0.2 Acres
Residential
Highland Homes Realty

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135 Kapok Street

$560,000

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2341 Sqft, 0.22 Acres
Residential
Chesmar Homes

118 Phalarope Drive

$559,000

Buda, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1834 Sqft, 1.09 Acres
Residential
River Bear Realty, Llc

NEW

238 Wild Pecan Loop

$559,000

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2342 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Real Broker, Llc

REDUCED

203 Soft Elm Drive

$557,500

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2823 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

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258 Tangerine Drive

$555,000

Buda, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 4052 Sqft, 0.25 Acres
Residential
Lighthouse Premier Realty

103 Lambs Trail

$550,000

Buda, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2517 Sqft, 1 Acre
Residential
Keller Williams - Lake Travis

REDUCED

287 San Saba Drive

$549,999

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2855 Sqft, 0.15 Acres
Residential
Outlaw Realty

134 Comfort Drive

$549,999

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2123 Sqft, 0.19 Acres
Residential
Outlaw Realty

REDUCED

261 Basket Flower Loop

$549,990

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2346 Sqft, 0.13 Acres
Residential
Highland Homes Realty

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590 Painted Creek Way

$549,900

Kyle, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 3282 Sqft, 0.26 Acres
Residential
Homecity Real Estate

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394 Jackson River Loop

$549,394

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2530 Sqft, 0.2 Acres
Residential
Highland Homes Realty

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1307 Graef Road B

$549,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1872 Sqft, 5.1 Acres
Residential
Citywide Realty - Team Elite Group

144 Allegheny Way

$549,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2528 Sqft, 0.26 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

108 Fawn River Run

$545,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2443 Sqft, 0.22 Acres
Residential
Real Broker, Llc

126 Comfort Drive

$544,999

Buda, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2249 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Outlaw Realty

352 Olympic Park Drive

$540,000

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2610 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc

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390 Muddy Creek Way

$539,990

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2683 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Era Experts

262 Muddy Creek Way

$539,990

Kyle, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2382 Sqft, 0.23 Acres
Residential
Era Experts

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