Mixed Results for Local Schools as State Releases Accountability Ratings

The Texas Education Agency released the 2022-23 school year ratings last week after a 19-month legal battle over how those ratings are calculated.

Under the state’s school rating system, all districts and campuses got a letter grade for the 2022-23 school year. Of the nearly 1,200 districts evaluated in the state, 10.4% got an A, 73% got a B or a C, and 16.6% got a D or an F.

The grade according to TEA “measures how much students are learning in each grade and whether or not they are ready for the next grade. It also shows how well a school or district prepares their students for success after high school in college, the workforce, or the military.”

Here’s how Fayette County Public Schools did:

La Grange ISD Overall: 80 = B Individual Campuses La Grange Elementary: 77 = C La Grange Middle School: 91 = A La Grange High School: 77 = C

Fayetteville ISD: 96 = A Round Top-Carmine ISD Overall: 90 = A

Individual Campuses RTC Elementary 88 = B RTC High School 90 = A

Flatonia ISD Overall: 94 = A Individual campuses Flatonia Elementary 90 = A Flatonia Secondary 95 = A

Schulenburg ISD Overall: 64 = D

Individual Campuses Schulenburg Elementary 59 = F Schulenburg Secondary 66 = D A legal battle had blocked the release of these ratings for 19 months. More than 120 districts across Texas argued that TEA did not give them adequate notice before rolling out stricter college and career readiness benchmarks.

The website www.txschools.gov includes additional information about the ratings as well as info on individual campus enrollments, student teacher ratios, average teacher salary, teacher years of experience, ethnicity, chronic absenteeism rates and more.