Longest Playoff Droughts (Updated thru the 2023 season)
The following is a listing of teams which haven't made the playoffs in the longest period of time, listed by classification.
If a school has never made the playoffs, the year is shown when they first started play in UIL competition.
Based on a team in 11-man and 6-man.
-  Updated Dec. 23, 2023

Class 6A Class 5A
Houston Northbrook  NONE (since '74) Joshua  1996
San Antonio Lee  1993 Houston Milby  2000
Fort Worth Paschal  1995 Dallas Sunset 2001
Pasadena  1996 Carrollton Turner  2001
Pasadena Sam Rayburn  1997 Dallas Jefferson  2002
Houston Spring Woods  1997 Corpus Christi Moody 2004
San Antonio Holmes  2000 Laredo Cigarroa  2006
El Paso Socorro 2002 Kyle Lehman NONE (since 2006)
Houston Sam Houston  2003 South San Antonio  2007
Alvin  2005 Baytown Sterling  2008
Conroe Caney Creek  2006 Austin Eastside Memorial NONE (since 2010)
Klein Forest  2009 Austin Navarro 2011
Cypress Lakes NONE (since 2010) Dallas Conrad 2011
Class 4A Class 3A
FW Diamond Hill-Jarvis  1954 Dallas A+ Academy NONE (since '99)
FW Carter-Riverside  1995 Warren  2005
Mabank 2007 SA South West Campus 2007
Dallas Pinkston 2009 Quitman  2010
Venus 2015 Monte Alto NONE (since 2012)
Houston Scarborough  2015 Elkhart  2014
Paris North Lamar  2016 Pattonville Prairiland  2015
Class 2A Class 1A
Bloomington  1999 Prairie Lea 1944
Malakoff Cross Roads  2003 Haskell Paint Creek  1995
Itasca  2009 Covington  1997
Bartlett  2013 Afton Patton Springs  2006
Moody  2016 Lohn  2007
Sabine Pass 2016 Hart  2008
    Cotton Center  2010
    Darrouzett NONE (since 2010)