AUSTIN (KXAN) — After years of legal delays, the Texas Education Agency released accountability ratings on Friday, showing how public school districts and campuses performed in 2024 and 2025.
More than 1,200 districts and more than 9,000 campuses received “A-F accountability ratings” based on key metrics:
- Student achievement: Evaluates performance on STAAR tests, graduation rates and College, Career and Military Readiness (CCMR) indicators.
- School progress
- Academic growth: Measures the number of students that grew at least one year academically as measured by STAAR results.
- Relative performance: Measures the achievement of students relative to districts with similar economically disadvantaged percentages.
- Closing the gaps: Reviews data to pinpoint differentials among racial/ethnic groups and socioeconomic backgrounds.
The map below shows how each district in the KXAN viewing area scored in the 2025 ratings.
Statewide, 24% of districts improved their grade compared to the 2024 ratings, which were also released Friday. Most campuses across Texas maintained the same rating, according to the TEA, while about 15% received a lower rating this year.
Locally, 15 districts improved their ratings between 2024 and 2025, including Florence ISD, which improved from D to B, and Bartlett ISD, which improved from F to C.
Forty local districts maintained the same rating from year to year, while three dropped. Cherokee ISD dropped from A to B, while Granger ISD and Lockhart ISD both dropped from C to D.
Austin ISD maintained a C rating. The district remains at risk of state takeover if any individual campus receives an F rating for four years in a row. Burnet, Dobie and Webb middle schools all received their third consecutive F in 2025.
The latest scores put the district in a challenging position to improve all three campuses by a letter grade in the new school year or face district-wide state intervention — similar to what happened with the Houston Independent School District, where the state appointed a new superintendent and board of managers.