Education
BY COMMUNITY IMPACT STAFF
Houston ISD received a “C” for the 2022- 23 school year in the Texas Education Agency’s accountability ratings for school districts statewide. The ratings were released April 24 after a delay due to lawsuits, TEA officials said. The announcement follows an April 3 ruling by Texas’ 15th Court of Appeals, which overturned an injunction that had blocked Houston ISD receives ‘C’ rating for 2022-23
The breakdown
earned a “B.” About 32% received a “C,” 14% earned a “D” and 3% earned an “F.”
According to the TEA’s latest accountability report, nearly 11% of traditional school districts across Texas earned an “A” rating, while 40%
Houston ISD ratings by campus, 2022-23
District snapshot, 2022-23 1st largest school district in Texas 189,290 students enrolled 79.5% economically disadvantaged 9.1% special education
37% emergent bilingual
A: 11 B: 15
91.9% average attendance rate 27.5% missed 10% or more of the school year
C: 6 D: 5 F: 4
SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY/ COMMUNITY IMPACT
the 2023 ratings for over a year. In August 2023, over 100 school
districts sued TEA Commissioner Mike Morath, arguing the agency’s revamped accountability system was “unlawful” and would unfairly harm school districts.
In a nutshell
The state’s A-F accountability system was designed to measure whether students are ready for the next grade level and how well each dis- trict prepares them for success after high school, Community Impact previously reported. “For far too long, families, educators and com- munities have been denied access to information about the performance of their schools, thanks to frivolous lawsuits paid for by tax dollars filed by those who disagreed with the statutory goal of raising career readiness expectations to help stu- dents,” Morath said in an April 24 news release. TEA officials said the methods of calculat- ing 2022-23 ratings were “updated to more
accurately reflect performance.” HISD received 72 out of 100 points for 2022-23. “It is important for the community to know that the data released today reflects the performance of the district and its schools prior to the state intervention and the appointment of Superinten- dent Mike Miles,” HISD officials said in an April 24 statement. “The 2022-2023 ratings confirm what many already knew: HISD was a deeply inequitable system in need of urgent change—clear evidence the intervention was needed.” The TEA intends to release ratings for 2024-25 on Aug. 15, per state law.
Houston ISD accountability ratings Since the A-F system launched in 2017-18, HISD has only received three official ratings due to three years of State of Disaster declarations. 2017-18: Not rated due to Hurricane Harvey 2018-19: B (88) 2019-20: Not rated due to COVID-19 pandemic 2020-21: Not rated due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021-22: B (88) 2022-23: C (72)
SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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