5A vs. smaller?

[tharbert]

If I remember correctly, most of the in-town schools were 5A. When you get out of town, there were quite a few up and down the range. 2 and 3A mixed together to play basketball but not football. Schools 1A and below played each other. One school, Evangel, played 5A football but 4A basketball. You might have heard of Evangel football. They were considered one of the top H.S. programs in the nation a few years ago. Don't know about now.

As for the numbers, I can only guess that there was a school on the bubble (1101 students?) and the board took the requisite bribes of two ettouffes, 5 gallons of gumbo and a passle of Zwolle tamales to "adjust" the chart accordingly.