The new ratings — which cover the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years — were released several months after the agency’s 2023 ratings.
DALLAS — The Texas Education Agency on Friday morning released A-F accountability ratings for campuses and districts for the last two school years.
The new ratings — which cover the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years — were released several months after the agency’s 2023 ratings, which were subject to a 19-month court battle over their release. A judge also recently ruled that the TEA could release the 2024 ratings, which are being made public at the same time as the 2025 ratings.
Before the 2023 ratings were released, families went five years without a complete set of ratings, due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, WFAA previously reported.
The newly released ratings give parents and advocates a chance to see how their local schools are performing. However, critics argue that the ratings don’t provide a full picture of a school or district’s performance. Arlington ISD already said it plans to appeal its rating, alleging scoring issues on some STAAR test results that were graded using AI. The TEA will likely be taking a close look at Fort Worth ISD’s scores, as it weighs a state takeover of the district.
Here’s a look at how local districts and schools fared in 2024 and 2025. Scroll to the bottom of the story to search for an individual campus.
What’s at stake?
All eyes were on the Fort Worth ISD as the district remains at risk of a state takeover.
The Texas Education Agency’s ratings determine whether a school district will be subject to state intervention. In 2023, Houston ISD was taken over by a state-appointed board of managers after one of the district’s schools received an ‘F’ rating for five years in a row.
State law requires TEA Commissioner Mike Morath to intervene if a campus receives five consecutive years of a failing grade.
Fort Worth ISD’s Leadership Academy at Forest Oak 6th Grade maintained an unacceptable rate for five years, according to the 2023 TEA A-F ratings, which were released in April 2025 after Fort Worth ISD and other districts sued to prevent their release.
In 2023, the same year the school received its fifth consecutive failing grade, the district consolidated the failing campus with Forest Oak Middle School.
How are accountability ratings determined?
The Texas Education Agency releases accountability ratings every year, except when legal challenges delay their release. School districts have challenged the state’s rating system in lawsuits, alleging that the TEA made changes to the rating system that made it more difficult to achieve a good rating, and didn’t give districts enough time to adjust.
Judges later ruled that the state can release its ratings for the 2023 and 2024 school years. The 2023 ratings were released in April.
The ratings released Friday are from the 2024 and 2025 school years. The ratings are determined by the school’s performance in three different categories: Student achievement, school progress and closing the gaps.
Student achievement and school progress make up 70% of the final ranking, according to the TEA. The rest is determined by the ‘closing the gap’ metric.
In grade school, student achievement measures whether students met expectations on the STAAR test. For high school campuses, it also measures graduation rates and college/career readiness.
School progress measures how students perform on state tests over time and how that performance compares with other schools with similarly economically disadvantaged students.
Closing the gap measures how well schools are boosting scores among special needs and English as a second language learners.
Critics of the accountability system argue that the A-F system harms poorer districts because they are more likely to receive failing grades and face intervention. Advocates say the ratings allow parents to see how their district and school are performing.