BY BROOKE SJOBERG
Bastrop ISD receives D in newly released 2022 23 TEA ratings
Bastrop ISD received a D for the 2022-23 school year with 65 out of a possible 100 points in the Texas Education Agency’s 2022-23 school account- ability ratings. Public schools across the state were rated based on a variety of factors, including academic perfor- mance and how prepared students are for college and careers after high school. Why now? Ratings for the 2022-23 school year were delayed by lawsuits, and released April 24 following an April 3 ruling in which the Texas 15th Court of Appeals overturned a 2023 injunction that prevented the accountability ratings’ release for more than a year. In September 2023, more than 100 Texas school districts joined in a lawsuit aimed at preventing the release of these ratings, as changes in the method- ology for how letter grades were calculated were made mid-school year. Because the ratings released April 24 are two years old, BISD Superintendent Barry Edwards says they are not a good representation of the district’s current performance, and the work done to improve performance by students and sta . “They don’t re ect the growth and resilience we’ve seen in our students the last two years, nor do they re ect the dedication of our teachers and sta and the blood, sweat and tears they’ve poured into improvement,” Edwards told community members in an April 24 email. In a nutshell According to an April 24 release from the TEA, various factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic and lawsuits, have left an incomplete set of ratings
Economically disadvantaged
Special education
Emergent bilingual/ English learners
Campus
Rating Enrollment
Bastrop High School
C
1,612
62.3% 11.2% 68.6% 17.3% 79.8% 11.8% 78.4% 13.3%
22.5%
Bastrop Intermediate
D C C
780 929
29.9% 29.5% 39.6% 70.5% 42.3% 63.3%
Bastrop Middle School
Bluebonnet Elementary School Cedar Creek Elementary School
750
F
1,074 1,995
92%
8.8%
Cedar Creek High School
D F F A
75.3% 12.3% 86.9% 16.1% 90.5% 15.3%
Cedar Creek Intermediate
932
Cedar Creek Middle School
1,039
57.1%
Colorado River Collegiate Academy
236
56.8%
1.7%
12.3%
Emile Elementary School
C
797
66%
12%
30.5%
Genesis High School
D C C D
137
85.4% 17.5% 88.5% 13.5%
40.9%
Lost Pines Elementary School
695
54.5%
Mina Elementary School
777
55.5%
11.5%
6.4%
Red Rock Elementary School
696
88.6% 15.7%
57.9%
SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY COMMUNITY IMPACT
for families to understand how their public schools are serving students. “For far too long, families, educators and commu- nities have been denied access to information about the performance of their schools, thanks to frivolous lawsuits paid for by tax dollars led by those who disagreed with the statutory goal of raising career readiness expectations to help students,” TEA Com- missioner Mike Morath said in the news release. The 2022-23 updates to methodology were made to “more accurately re ect performance,” according to the TEA. In his email to the community, Edwards addressed changes to the accountability ratings for
2022-23, including the redesigned State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness and an adjust- ment to one indicator related to College, Career and Military Readiness. What’s next? Edwards told community members he was con dent that performance on the 2025 STAAR exam would demonstrate a level of improvement the district has been working toward. “We’ve witnessed our kids using their instruc- tional strategies and giving us their best as they’ve been testing,” Edwards wrote. “We are proud of their e ort and their heart.”
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