By Rita Cook
Correspondent
Texas Metro News
DALLAS – The Texas Education Agency (TEA) published its state’s A-F academic accountability system for 2024 and 2025 this past Friday.
You can find all the results at TXschools.gov.
As a reminder, the 2024 release had been held up by a lawsuit. Earlier this month, the 15th Court of Appeals finally made way for the accountability scores to be made public.
This system, according to the TEA is an “academic accountability system” that evaluates every public school and district across the state on an A to F scale.
The idea is to allow families a better idea of how their campuses are performing.
Under the current system, the state looks at three major categories to determine A-F grades: student achievement, school progress and closing the gaps.
Student achievement” considers how children performed on the STAAR tests. For high schools, it also weighs graduation rates and other metrics.
School progress” factors in how much improvement students made year over year or how well they did in relation to those at comparable campuses.
Closing the gaps” looks at how schools do in educating children in different groups, such as those living in poverty or receiving special education services.
Seventy percent of the grade is based on either student achievement or school progress — whichever is the higher grade — while closing the gaps makes up 30%.
Dallas ISD received a score of B overall with a total enrollment of 139,776 students in 239 schools, according to TEA.
Other large city ISDs in Texas received C ratings including Fort Worth ISD, Houston ISD, Austin ISD, and San Antonio ISD.
There were six North Texas school districts that received an A rating including Highland Park, Carroll, Southlake, Lovejoy, Allen and Sunnyvale ISD’s.
Houston area districts located in Harris County saw A ratings with Devers ISD, Barbers Hill ISD and Friendswood ISD.
