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Home of the McNeil Mavericks and Westwood Warriors, both Austin-based high schools who are administered by Round Rock ISD due to odd school district boundaries that lunge far southwest from Round Rock into northwest Austin. While the official name of the facility is the bland "Round Rock ISD Stadium", most fans call it "The Parmer Palace". RRISD doesn't care for this unofficial moniker, perhaps because they think it refers to the money spent, but it's really intended to boast on how terrific a stadium this truly is- a real Texas high school football palace, one of the finest such facilities in the nation. The state soccer championships and some state football championship games have already been held here. Both McNeil and Westwood play in what is currently numbered as UIL athletic district 16-5A ('08-'09 thru '09-'10). This has been, for the previous two years, the toughest high school football district in Texas. The team that led eventual state champion Katy 7-0 most of the first half of the title game in 2007, Pflugerville, lost that game to finish as the second place team in Texas. They were only good enough for fourth in 16-5A. The last place team in 16-5A - Westwood - had non-district wins over the district champions of the nearest two 5A districts; Temple to the north (13-5A) and Austin Bowie to the south (25-5A). In fact, Westwood fell to the eventual state 4A champions just 18-10, despite finishing 8th of 8 teams in the toughest district in Texas, 16-5A (then called 14-5A).
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While it is true that RRISD needed to build a new football stadium in the western part of the district, a facility of this magnitude was totally unnecessary and a millstone round the neck of the district's taxpayers. Contrary to the beliefs of of most RRISD parents, students (see above) and voters (who have since suffered from buyers' remorse), the purpose of the ISD is to educate the students to take part in real life, not to fulfill their football fantasies, nor be a center for statewide competitions of any kind.. It is well known that income from advertising, naming rights, etc, has fallen far short of the original optimistic predictions, making the Parmer Palace a hindrance to the proper activities of the district.
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