Education Education Edition
BY CHLOE YOUNG
2025
Welcome to Community Impact’s 2025 Education Edition. With students back in the classroom for the 2025-26 school year, our team of education reporters explore new programs in Georgetown ISD, including the district’s academic goals and a reading intervention initiative. We also cover the state’s recent school funding legislation, and new bills a ecting students and teachers. I hope everyone has a great school year!
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Georgetown ISD www.georgetownisd.org VISION: Home of the most inspired students, served by the most empowered leaders. MISSION: Inspiring and empowering every learner to lead, grow, and serve. Georgetown ISD serves more than 14,000 students.
What's inside
See GISD's performance in recently released A F ratings (Page 14)
District expands literacy intervention program (Page 16)
Teachers, sta to receive raises for 2025 26 school year (Page 17)
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New goals to guide district
Georgetown ISD goals
Diving in deeper
Exceeding the state on accountability measures and improving the quartile ranking of schools relative to comparable schools Increasing the percentage of walkthrough observations demonstrating rigorous, appropriately challenging learning tasks aligned to grade-level standards Increasing the percentage of students on grade level in literacy on the mCLASS assessment from 64% to 80% by June 2028 Increasing the percentage of students on grade level in math on the MAP test from 59% to 80% by June 2028 Increasing the percentage of graduates meeting the criteria of college, career, and military readiness from 79% to 90% by June 2026
GISD aims to have zero schools with a D or F accountability rating from the state by the end of the 2025-26 school year. Seven GISD campuses received a D or F rating in 2022-23. Four campuses received a D or F rating in 2024-25, TEA data shows. See updated ratings for all district schools on Page 14. Additionally, GISD surpassed one of its initial goals with 64% of students reading on or above grade level, Padavail said. Read more about a literacy intervention program the district launched at Cooper and Frost elementaries last year, and is looking to expand to additional campuses on Page 16.
Georgetown ISD o cials are working to adopt new goals to lead the district’s e orts over the coming years. At an Aug. 18 meeting, after press time, the GISD board was set to vote on goals to improve student performance in literacy; math; and college, career and military readiness. Additional priorities proposed included improving teacher compensation and A-F accountability ratings. Superintendent Devin Padavil and GISD administrators conducted a data analysis of student test scores, state accountability ratings and nancial reports. District o cials found GISD had a gap in closing literacy rates and a lack of forward progress in elementary math, according to the presentation.
Adopting a balanced budget in June 2026
Ensuring teacher compensation is in the top third of the region
SOURCE: GEORGETOWN ISD COMMUNITY IMPACT
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