Lake Travis is reminded of its dominance in high school football by the four stars that adorn the "L" on the players' helmets.

The fraternity of teams that have won four straight state championships in the history of University Interscholastic League 11-man football has three members: Sealy (1994-97), Celina (1998-01) and Lake Travis (2007-present).

The Cavaliers' "Drive for Five" has opened with impressive victories against Westlake and Hendrickson, fueling talk that a fifth straight title is possible, if not imminent.

Ranked No. 1 in Class 4A in the latest Associated Press poll, Lake Travis is 63-3 since the beginning of the '07 season.

The team's unmatched success begs the question: How would the Cavaliers fare if they were a Class 5A team? That might be a hypothetical question today, but Lake Travis is on the fast track to being designated a 5A school when the UIL conducts its biennial realignment in 2012.

For Lake Travis, the road to future state titles might run through such Class 5A heavyweights as Allen, Southlake Carroll and Euless Trinity.

The school's enrollment at the start of the 2011-12 academic year was listed as 2,232 students, roughly a 9.5 percent increase over the 2010-11 figure.

When the UIL set its realignment and reclassification guidelines for the 2010-11 and 2001-12 school years, the minimum number of students for a Class 5A school was 2,065.

Welcome to the big time, Lake Travis. There are plenty of reasons to believe you will be fine in 5A, including:

Lake Travis would be a small 5A school, but interest in high school football there is off-the-charts amazing. There are 280 boys playing on six Cavalier teams, with 60 players on the varsity. The six teams were a combined 6-0 this past weekend.

Since 2007, Lake Travis is 9-1 against 5A teams. The Cavs have outscored those opponents by an average score of 35-21. The lone loss was a 28-21 setback at Westlake in 2007, Garrett Gilbert's junior season at Lake Travis.

The 5A mountain could be tough to climb, though, because Lake Travis would not be able to match the larger enrollment figures of other schools.

Five of the six schools in District 15-5A — led by Bowie, which had a reported enrollment of 2,772 students in 2009 — are larger than Lake Travis. All seven schools in District 16-5A have more students than Lake Travis, led by McNeil and its 2,933 students.

How does Lake Travis' enrollment compare to those of some of the state's high-profile 5A teams?

Odessa Permian, the subject of H.G. Bissinger's book "Friday Night Lights," boasts an enrollment of 3,260. Euless Trinity has 3,063 students; Southlake Carroll, 2,513; Allen, 5,049; The Woodlands, 3,782; Katy, 2,794; Converse Judson, 3,091; and Galena Park North Shore, 4,416.

Public high schools in Texas will report their enrollment figures to the UIL in October, and the UIL will announce its reclassification and realignment of schools for the next two academic school years in February.

When the Cavaliers started piling up state football championships, some referred to Lake Travis as "the new Westlake." That's high praise, given Westlake's success in Class 5A for most of the past 20 years.

You can almost bank on Westlake and Lake Travis being in the same athletic district beginning next year. So when the Chaps and Cavs meet on the gridiron again, there likely will be more at stake that just community pride.