Market Overview for McDade Independent School District
There are 11 active listings in McDade Independent School District with a median list price of $799K and a median sold price of $385K.
Homes average 56 days on market.
Over the past 30 days, 1 homes have sold, with 11 sales in the past 12 months.
The average price per square foot is $319.
About McDade Independent School District
McDade Independent School District serves approximately 200 students on a single K-8 campus in the unincorporated community of McDade in western Bastrop County, about 40 miles east of downtown Austin. The district is one of the smallest in Texas and does not operate a high school; students completing 8th grade transfer to Elgin ISD for their high school education at Elgin High School, approximately 10 miles west. The district covers roughly 65 square miles of post-oak woodland, sandy loam farmland, and open range along US Highway 290 and FM 1441. McDade was established in the 1870s as a stop on the Houston and Texas Central Railway and gained notoriety during a brief period of frontier violence in the 1880s. Today the community is a quiet rural settlement of a few hundred residents centered on the school, two churches, the McDade Historical Museum, and the annual McDade Watermelon Festival grounds.
Real estate within McDade ISD is predominantly rural acreage with scattered homesites on large parcels. Properties with 5 to 20 acres and a home typically list from $300K to $600K, depending on the age and condition of improvements, fencing, and road frontage. Larger undeveloped tracts of 20 to 100 acres price from $12,000 to $20,000 per acre based on water, timber, and access. Older farmhouses and manufactured homes on smaller lots are occasionally available from $150K to $300K. New subdivision construction does not exist in the district; all building activity is custom homes, barndominiums, or manufactured home placements on individual lots. The median home price in the district is approximately $350K, reflecting the acreage premium and the relatively limited inventory in this sparsely populated area.
McDade ISD operates a single campus serving pre-K through 8th grade with approximately 200 students in one building. The campus provides multi-grade instruction in lower elementary, departmentalized classes in upper elementary, and a small middle school program for 6th through 8th graders. Class sizes are very small, with student-to-teacher ratios in the single digits in some grade levels. The school does not field UIL athletic teams at the high school level since it has no high school, but middle school students participate in cross-country, basketball, and track. McDade students entering 9th grade enroll at Elgin High School in neighboring Elgin ISD, which competes in UIL Class 4A and offers a full range of athletics, CTE pathways, and dual-credit courses. The transition from a small K-8 campus to a larger high school of 1,200+ students is a significant adjustment that the districts coordinate through orientation programs.
