Texas Educational Institutions announced a public school accountability assessment from 2022-23, about two years after April 24th. This is the first time since 2019 that a school has received a full evaluation due to the Covid-19 pandemic and two lawsuits.
The Texans will have access to 2023 assessments of the K-12 district and individual campuses at www.txschools.gov. In addition to these ratings, Tea also released “What If” scores for the 2021-22 academic year. This reflects how the school played under the current accountability system and was updated in 2023 to better fit student performances.
“Accountability works – the public publication of school system assessments will have a positive impact on children’s academic and livelihood outcomes,” he told reporters on April 22. “We do this because we help our kids.
At a glance
Texas schools are rated on the AF scale based on three criteria: student achievement, school progress and gap closure. Elementary and secondary school ratings are primarily based on Texas academic readiness assessments. Students start taking the medication in their third year, but their high school ratings are based on STAAR and ready for success after graduation.
Campus performance declined statewide between 2021-22 and 23rd 2022. Of the 8,368 campuses that took into account both the 2022 “What if” score and the 2023 rating, 44% received the same grade, 13% received the higher grade in 2023, and 43% received the lower grade in 2023, Morath said.
In 2023, 1,646 campuses won an A. 2,873 campuses won B. C has arrived on campus of 2,107. 1,264 campuses received their D. According to Tee’s statewide summary report, 649 campuses won F.
Almost 11% of school districts received an A rating for the 2022-23 academic year. According to the TEA, 40% of the districts won a B, about 32% won a C, 14% received a D, and about 3% received an F.
According to the TEA website, districts and campuses that have won D or F may receive additional resources and support from the state. Under state law, if at least one campus in a school district receives a failed performance for the fifth consecutive year, the commissioner must close that campus or appoint a board of trustees. Houston ISD has been led by the Management Committee since June 2023.
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State law requires that AF systems be updated every five years, Morath said.
“We are changing as we are legally required to ensure that Texas sets goals in the AF system to become a national leader in preparing students for post-secondary success,” he told reporters. “So we keep raising the bar over time, but we don’t do that every year. We do it once every five years.”
Morath attributes the decline in campus performance to changes in the system and poor student performance benefits a few years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Unfortunately, the school didn’t grow students as quickly as they did last year,” he told reporters.
The 2022-23 rating was issued three weeks after the state court of appeals approved its release on April 3, overturning the lower court’s injunction. Tea remains prevented from issuing grade ratings for the 2023-24 year period due to another case pending in the state court of appeals.
Morath said it plans to release an assessment for the 2024-25 academic year on August 15th, according to state law.
background
Designed in 2017 and updated in 2023, the Texas School Accountability System was created to provide parents with insight into the quality of their children’s campus and districts through the annual AF assessment. Court documents say more than 100 Texas school districts sued Morath in August 2023, claiming they had made “illegal” changes to the system, saying the ratings were low despite the fact that they allegedly improved performance.
Morath told reporters that some elementary and middle school campuses are performing better under the redesigned system, with the change “reflecting how well schools close the gaps between students, how well they accelerate students, and essentially catching students up to the grade level.”
According to previous Community Impact Reports, for high schools, the new system raised campus standards to receive an A based on student preparation of 60% to 88% based on university, career or military preparation. Morath said the change caused several drops in high school scores.
“It’s absolutely mathematically possible for all (schools) to get an A, but they have to get it,” Morath said on April 22nd.
State law provides for the publication of an AF rating by August 15th each year, but that date was repeatedly pushed back in 2023. The agency had not issued a grade rating for the 2022-23 grade by the time the Travis County District Judge blocked release in October 2023.
Two other Travis County judges later banned them from assigning grades for the 2023-24 grade.
The school has not received a full AF rating since 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no accountability ratings have been issued in 2020 or 2021. In 2022, schools receiving C or lower were considered “unrated” as they recovered from pandemic-related learning losses.
