The Texas Education Agency releases new school ratings for 2024 and 2025, showing stability in results after difficulty with criteria changes.
SAN ANTONIO — The grades are in and the Texas Education Agency has released its accountability ratings for the 2024 and 2025 school years.
This comes after years of back and forth between districts in the state and the TEA. 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And in 2022, the state only released A-C ratings.
For 2023, the agency made changes to the rating systems which made it more difficult to achieve the highest ratings and districts challenged it, saying they didn’t have enough time to adjust. A judge ruled that the state can release its ratings for 2023 and 2024. The 2023 results were released back in April, and many schools and districts say a big drop from the 2019 ratings due to the new criteria.
The 2024 and 2025 ratings were overall about the same, with a few districts and schools increasing their ratings as they adjusted to the new criteria. For comparison, here is a breakdown of the ratings for the San Antonio area’s biggest districts from 2019 to present. Click here if you do not see your child’s district on the list.
2019: B (83)
2023: C (70)
2024: C (69)
2025: C (72)
North East ISD:
2019: B (89)
2023: C (78)
2024: C (78)
2025: C (78)
Northside ISD
2019: B (87)
2023: C (77)
2024: C (76)
2025: C (75)
Judson ISD:
2019: B (83)
2023: D (69)
2024: D (70)
2025: D (69)
Southwest ISD:
2019: B (82)
2023: C (75)
2024: C (72)
2025: C (77)
South San ISD:
2019: C (77)
2023: D (60)
2024: D (69)
2025: D (65)
Comal ISD:
2019: A (92)
2023: B (85)
2024: B (86)
2025: B (87)
Alamo Heights ISD:
2019: A (91)
2023: B (88)
2024: B (87)
2025: B (87)
Boerne ISD
2019: A (94)
2023: A (91)
2024: A (91)
2025: A (92)
Which schools received an A rating?
In previous years, high schools could achieve an A rating if at least 60 percent of graduating seniors attended college. In 2023, that number was moved to 88 percent. Still, a number of high schools, middle schools and elementaries managed to get an A rating. See the full list of campuses from the above districts for the 2024-2025 school year. If your district is not on the list, click here to the see the full report.
- Advanced Learning Academy
- CAST Tech
- Carroll Early Childhood Campus
- Cooper Academy at Navarro
- Franklin Elementary
- Healy Murphy Pre-K
- Irving Dual Language Academy
- Mark Twain Dual Language Academy
- SAISD Pre-K for SA
- St. Philips Early College High School
- Travis Early College High School
- Young Women’s Leadership Academy
North East ISD:
- Academy of Creative Education
- Bush Middle School
- Castle Hills Elementary
- Canyon Ridge Elementary
- Cibolo Green
- Encino Park Elementary
- Hidden Forest
- Hill Middle School
- Huebner Elementary
- International School of the Americas
- Las Lomos
- Longs Creek Elementary
- Lopez Middle School
- Oak Meadow Elementary
- Olmos Elementary
- Reagan High School
- Roan Forest Elementary
- Stone Oak Elementary
- Tejeda Middle School
- Tuscany Heights Elementary
- Vinyard Ranch Elementary
- Wilderness Oak Elementary
Northside ISD
- Aue Elementary
- Beard Elementary
- Blattman Elementary
- Garcia Middle School
- Health Careers High School
- Helotes Elementary
- Langley Elementary
- Leon Springs Elementary
- Raba Elementary
- Wernli Elementary
Judson ISD:
- Crestview Elementary
- Judson Early College Academy
Southwest ISD:
- Big Country Elementary
- CAST STEM High School
Comal ISD:
- Arlon R Seay Elementary
- Bill Brown Elementary
- Garden Ridge Elementary
- Hill Country College Prep High School
- Hoffman Lane Elementary
- Indian Springs Elementary
- Judson Ranch Elementary
- Kinder Ranch Elementary
- Memorial Early College High School
- MH Specht Elementary
- Mountain Valley Elementary
- Oak Creek Elementary
- Pieper High School
- Pieper Ranch Middle School
- Rebecca Creek Elementary
- Smithson Valley High School
- Smithson Valley Middle School
- Spring Branch Middle School
- Timberwood Park Elementary
Alamo Heights ISD:
- Alamo Heights Junior High
Boerne ISD:
- Boerne Champion High School
- Boerne High School
- Boerne Middle School South
- Cibolo Creek Elementary
- Fabra Elementary
- Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary
- Van Raub Elementary
- Voss 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.