The Texas Education Agency released a provisional set of accountability ratings for school districts and campuses across the state Jan. 6 based on the TEA’s new A-F rating system. The system change comes as a result of House Bill 2804 passed by the 84th Texas Legislature in 2015.

Although the new rating system will be officially implemented in the 2017-18 academic year, Friday’s release to the public is intended only as a trial run and features provisional scores for each district and campus in four out of five domains, or performance areas. The scores are based on data from the 2015-16 academic year. According to the TEA, no overall rating can yet be given to districts and campuses, since no score has been given for Domain V—community and student engagement—which is 10 percent of the overall grade.

Grapevine-Colleyville ISD Superintendent Robin Ryan said accountability is important but that this grading system missed the mark.

"We have great schools in GCISD and all across Texas," he said. "Any contrived accountability system that suggests otherwise just doesn't pass the common-sense test. We encourage our community to reach out to their legislators and voice their concerns about an accountability system that defines our progress as a letter grade. While we will continue to follow GCISD's strategic plan set forth in LEAD 2021, we will not discount the data that is collected as part of STAAR. In this instance, the data informs us, it does not define us. Although we object to the new A-F rating system narrowing a school's performance to one label, we will use the data collected from STAAR and several other sources to authentically evaluate student progress."

Each district and school will be rated in four other areas, or domains:

Domain I measures student achievement.
Domain II measures student progress, specifically how each student’s State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness score compares to the previous year.
Domain III measures closing achievement gaps. Economically disadvantaged numbers play into this.
Domain IV measures postsecondary readiness. At the high school level, this is based on the graduation rate and the percentage of students who graduate ready for college, career or the military.

Today's scores only include domains I-IV, with no overall score, but a designation as to whether the district and school met standards.

Test results for Carroll and Grapevine-Colleyville ISDs in domains I-IV are as follows:

Carroll ISD: A|A|A|C

Elementary schools:
Carroll Elementary: A|A|-|B
Johnson Elementary: A|A|-|A
Old Union Elementary: A|C|-|A
Rockenbaugh Elementary: A|A|-|B
Walnut Grove Elementary: A|B|-|A

Intermediate schools:
Durham Intermediate: A|A|-|B
Eubanks Intermediate: A|A|-|B

Middle schools:
Carroll Middle: A|A|-|B
Dawson Middle: A|A|-|A

High schools:
Carroll High: A|A|-|-
Carroll Senior High: A|-|-|C

Grapevine-Colleyville ISD: A|B|D|C

Elementary schools:
Bear Creek Elementary: B|B|C|C
Bransford Elementary: A|B|-|B
Cannon Elementary: B|C|C|B
Colleyville Elementary: A|C|-|A
Dove Elementary: B|B|D|C
Glenhope Elementary: A|A|D|B
Grapevine Elementary: A|A|D|A
Heritage Elementary: A|A|-|A
Silver Lake Elementary: B|D|C|C
Taylor Elementary: A|B|-|B
Timberline Elementary: C|C|B|C

Middle schools:
Colleyville Middle: A|B|A|B
Cross Timbers Middle: B|C|D|B
Grapevine Middle: C|D|D|B
Heritage Middle: A|C|B|B

High schools:
Colleyville Heritage High: A|C|C|C
Grapevine High: B|C|D|C

According to the TEA, the new rating system measures year-over-year district and student performance beyond STAAR results. This system will officially be implemented in the 2017-18 academic year and released in August 2018, reflecting district and student performance in the 2016-17 academic year.