The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released its first year of new school accountability ratings Thursday.
College Station (CSISD) and Bryan (BISD) met the overall academic standard requirement as districts as well as all campuses.
Under the former accountability system districts and campuses were rated as exemplary, recognized, academically acceptable or academically unacceptable. For 2013, districts and campuses either “met standard” or “improvement required.”
Click HERE to read the TEA scores for CSISD.
Click below to hear comments from CSISD Superintendent Eddie Coulson, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver.
Click HERE to read the TEA scores for BISD.
Click HERE to read the TEA list of 21 BISD campus distinctions.
Click below to hear comments from BISD Superintendent Tommy Wallis, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver.
The new ratings, based on the STAAR test, also broke down four areas: student achievement, student progress, closing performance gaps, and measuring high school graduation rates.
According to a BISD news release, the district met three of the four state standards but fell just one percentage point shy on the metric of post-secondary readiness. Results from Bryan and Rudder High Schools mirrored those of the district overall—meeting three of the four standards and coming within a few percentage points of the goal for post-secondary readiness. Two elementary schools (Crockett and Jones) fell slightly short of standards on student progress or closing the performance gaps.
CSISD met standards in all four areas as a district and on all campuses.
In Mumford ISD, Superintendent Pete Bienski reported the district, Mumford High School, and Mumford Elementary achieved the “met standard” rating. Mumford Elementary received distinctions in all three performance areas and Mumford High received two out of three distinctions.