Overview

• Statewide, the share of campuses rated F dropped from 8% to 4% and the proportion of districts deemed acceptable rose by seven percentage points under the long-delayed accountability system.
• Beaumont, Connally, Wichita Falls and Lake Worth ISDs each recorded a fifth straight F at one or more campuses, triggering the legal threshold for possible state intervention.
• Arlington ISD contends that AI-scored STAAR exams produced deflated grades and says its $200,000 investment in human rescoring of over 4,000 tests yielded higher results that were excluded from TEA’s ratings.
• Houston ISD reported zero F-rated schools for the first time in its unofficial tally, Klein ISD previewed no D or F campuses and Austin ISD saw four schools receive their fourth consecutive F.
• TEA officials will conduct site visits and review formal appeals before deciding whether to intervene in chronically underperforming districts under state law.