Raising property taxes is not going to get people to care more about High School Football. I figured that there was some kind of taxpayer-funded public servant in your immediate family with that kind of comment and remark.
Well I can speak on FL well South FL to be exact which is the talent down here is good. For a lot of schools getting to states and winning requires you to beat a school from South FL more so Miami and Broward County. Now Broward schools have their own stadiums on campus, whereas Miami schools don't and schools have to share stadiums.
Now Miami does have neighborhoods with one or two schools like Liberty City has Central and Northwestern and Overtown has Booker T. Washington Which all three schools are powerhouses and each school has 7 plus state titles.
I wish I had an answer but I don't. I said all of this to give some credit but I can't. Miami schools don't have space for their own stadiums on campus and when alumni and the community gives back it's usually towards scholarships new books and so on. One of the iconic famous stadiums out of Miami is Traz Powell which can use drastic upgrades and nothing has happened and you would think the school board would help out and they don't. Again this is just my opinion. I could be right or I could be wrong.
Georgia is very similar to Texas in this regard. What you see in the northern Atlanta suburbs is super communities emerging, where the community takes great pride in their town and their schools. Several national-level powers (Milton and Buford most notably) are, at once, very highly rated schools among the elite anywhere AND highly invested in the football program. Some of that appears to exist in Tennessee as well, per nolebull.