During the 2012–2013 school year, the Roxton Lions won the state championship in boys basketball, beating the Douglass Indians from Douglass, Texas.
In 2018, the district leadership stated that it wished to consolidate due to financial problems and that it was holding discussions with two potential suitor school districts.[3] There was also consideration of the district becoming elementary only.[4] Roxton ISD and Chisum ISD formed a consolidation agreement, signed by the board of Chisum ISD,[5] and the measure was to be put to the voters.[6]