Alto High School

Alto High School sits in the small, tight-knit town of Alto in deep East Texas, where Friday night football and a strong sense of community are as much a part of the school experience as the classroom. The school lands in the middle of the pack statewide, with science being a relative strength, and it tends to draw families who value a close relationship between students and teachers that's harder to find in larger districts. If you're settling into the piney woods of Cherokee County and want your kids known by name rather than by student ID, Alto is the kind of place where that's genuinely possible.