Lockhart ISD Real Estate

Lockhart ISD is the school district for Lockhart and most of northern Caldwell County, about 30 miles southeast of downtown Austin along SH 130. It covers 300 square miles and roughly 6,800 students, runs one comprehensive high school that every address inside the line feeds, and is in the middle of its biggest building stretch: a sixth elementary opened in 2025, the high school was expanded the same year, and a second middle school is under construction with the district aiming for 2027, which will split the secondary map for the first time. Read more about Lockhart ISD homes, campuses and boundaries below.

Homes for Sale in the Lockhart School District, $500,000 - $600,000

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3200 Cattlemens Row

$600,000

Lockhart, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1988 Sqft, 50 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

1550 Barth Rd

$599,900

Dale, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2200 Sqft, 1.14 Acres
Residential
Wsi Realty

500 Colony Line Trail

$599,000

Dale, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2400 Sqft, 18.39 Acres
Residential
Lone Star Realty

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1013 N Colorado Street

$598,200

Lockhart, TX
7 Bed, 4 Bath, 3352 Sqft, 0.22 Acres
Residential
Land Unlimited

NEW

421 W Market Street

$597,500

Lockhart, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 3164 Sqft, 0.3 Acres
Residential
Countywide Realty

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1232 Spruce Street

$575,000

Lockhart, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2954 Sqft, 0.34 Acres
Residential
Exit Realty Advisors

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1385 Pettytown Road

$559,999

Dale, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1296 Sqft, 16.21 Acres
Residential
Land Up Realty & Investments

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241 Melody Road

$549,900

Lockhart, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 3383 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

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220 Clydesdale Drive

$539,900

Dale, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1833 Sqft, 8.02 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

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645 Old Luling Road

$539,000

Lockhart, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 1232 Sqft, 17 Acres
Residential
Ts Realty

10105 Fm 86

$530,000

Lockhart, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1840 Sqft, 14.38 Acres
Residential
Countywide Realty

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123 Crossroads Drive

$525,000

Dale, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2018 Sqft, 4.5 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

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252 Melody Road

$524,900

Lockhart, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2895 Sqft, 0.2 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

514 S Main Street

$500,000

Lockhart, TX
3 Bed, 1 Bath, 1538 Sqft, 0.36 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Heritage

About Lockhart ISD

Where the District Is

The district is based on Bois D'Arc Street in Lockhart, the Caldwell County seat, and it covers the city and the farm country around it in every direction: Dale, Lytton Springs and the Caldwell County side of Mustang Ridge and Niederwald to the north and west, Maxwell toward San Marcos, and McMahan, Delhi, Taylorsville and the other crossroads communities out east and south. Hays CISD adjoins it to the northwest, Del Valle ISD to the north, Bastrop ISD to the northeast, San Marcos CISD to the west, and Prairie Lea and Luling ISDs to the south; the full regional picture is on our Austin area school districts page.

The postmarks out here are famously unreliable. Dale addresses split between Lockhart and Bastrop ISDs, Niederwald carries Kyle mail and splits between Hays CISD and Lockhart ISD, Maxwell splits with San Marcos CISD, and Mustang Ridge splits with Del Valle ISD, so on the edges of this district the map is the only source that settles anything. The district sits on SH 130, which is the reason its growth arrived: the toll road put Lockhart within a half hour of the airport and the employers on Austin's east side, and the district describes itself as one of the fast-growth districts of the region.

Schools in the District

Lockhart ISD runs ten campuses: an early education pre-kindergarten campus, six elementary schools, one junior high, a self-paced program high school and Lockhart High School. Campus pages and contacts are on the district's site.

• Pre-K: the Carver Early Education Center serves the district's youngest students on one campus
• Elementary: Alma Brewer Strawn, Bluebonnet, Clear Fork, Navarro, Plum Creek and Borchert Loop, which opened in August 2025 on the district's north side as the sixth
• Junior high, grades 6-8: Lockhart Junior High, the only campus at its level until the second middle school opens
• High, grades 9-12: Lockhart High School on Center Street, competing in UIL Class 5A, with a renovation and expansion completed in January 2025; Pride High School is the district's self-paced program campus

How the Feeder Pattern Works

Today the structure is simple. Six elementary zones are the only assignment that varies by address; every student then attends Lockhart Junior High and Lockhart High School, so the school question for a property inside the line is which elementary it feeds and nothing else. That is also why the junior high is the pressure point: it held about 1,500 students in early 2025, at 97 percent of capacity by the district's own count, with enrollment projected past the building's limit. When the second middle school opens, the district will draw middle school attendance lines for the first time, and an address's sixth-through-eighth-grade assignment will depend on where it is. Elementary zones were last redrawn when Borchert Loop opened in 2025.

Communities in Lockhart ISD

• Lockhart — the county seat and the district's headquarters city, from the courthouse square blocks to the new subdivisions on the north and west sides
• Juniper Springs — the master-planned community on the city's north side, with Borchert Loop Elementary inside it
• Dale and Lytton Springs — the rural north end toward SH 130 and the Travis County line, where the district meets Bastrop ISD and the postmark proves nothing
• Maxwell and the western edge — small-community and acreage addresses toward San Marcos, split with San Marcos CISD
• The eastern and southern farm roads — McMahan, Delhi, Taylorsville, Tilmon and the ranch country along FM 20, FM 713 and FM 86

Boundaries, Transfers and Change

The last two bonds tell the story of the district's decade. In November 2022 voters approved $71 million that built the sixth elementary, which opened as Borchert Loop in August 2025, and added roughly 500 seats to Lockhart High School, finished in January 2025. In May 2025 they approved a single $93.5 million proposition with 75 percent of the vote, the district's largest, funding Middle School No. 2, built for up to 1,200 students in grades six through eight, along with land for future campuses. Ground was broken in early 2026 and the district's stated goal is to welcome students in August 2027. Both bonds were presented as requiring no increase in the district's tax rate.

The second middle school is the change to plan around. Its zone does not exist yet, drawing it will divide the district's secondary map for the first time, and an address bought today for the junior high may be assigned to the new campus when it opens; that is a question to ask before the offer, not after. Beyond that, the land purchase in the 2025 bond is the district saying more campuses are coming without saying where, and nothing further has been called. Transfers between campuses and into the district follow the district's own rules and windows; check the district's site for the current process rather than any summary, including this one.

For Buyers

Start with the district line, then the elementary zone. On every edge of this district the mailing address disagrees with the map somewhere, Dale and Niederwald and Maxwell most of all, so county appraisal records and the district's own map are the only sources worth trusting for a specific parcel. Once a property is confirmed inside the line, the elementary is today's only address-level question, and the middle school becomes one in 2027.

Carrying costs vary more than list prices suggest. The new subdivisions on the city's north and west sides sit in their own utility districts on top of the county and school district levies, dues can run at more than one level, and the farm-road acreage runs on wells and septic or a water supply corporation. The district sets its own tax rate each year. Two homes at the same price can carry different monthly obligations, and the difference is not visible in the listing. Read the median carefully as well: Lockhart now closes a meaningful volume of new construction every year, and a falling median often reflects what builders delivered that quarter rather than what a house near the square is worth.

Finally, verify your own address against the district's map, since a new middle school zone is coming, elementary lines moved as recently as 2025, and general descriptions go stale, including this one. If you would like one of our Lockhart TX Realtors to check a specific property against the current maps and what is on the calendar, reach out and we will set up a call.

By: Jim Olenbush
Area information last updated: August 2026