Across Texas, the breakdown in grades, according to the TEA, was as follows:
- 11% of school districts received an A rating
- 40% of districts earned a B
- 32% scored a C
- 14% received a D
- 3% received an F
The big picture
The state’s A-F accountability system was designed to measure whether students are ready for the next grade level and how well each district prepares them for success after high school, Community Impact previously reported.
The announcement of the release follows an April 3 ruling by Texas’ 15th Court of Appeals, which overturned a lower court's injunction that had blocked the 2023 ratings for over a year.
In August 2023, over 100 Texas school districts sued TEA Commissioner Mike Morath, arguing the agency’s revamped accountability system was “unlawful” and would unfairly harm school districts.
Breaking in down
CCISD had nearly 40,500 students enrolled in 2022-23, TEA data shows.
Over 37% of those students were economically disadvantaged, nearly 14% were in special education programs, and over 13% were emergent bilingual students, TEA data shows.
The average attendance rate in 2022-23 was just 93%, and over 21% of CCISD students were classified as “chronically absent,” meaning they missed 10% or more of the 2022-23 school year.
Out of the CCISD campuses that received ratings, no campus earned a rating under a "C":
- Nine earned an A
- 27 earned a B
- Eight earned a C
Texas school districts last received ratings through the A-F system for the 2021-22 school year, when about one-third of districts statewide earned an "A" rating for 2021-22, and slightly more than half earned a "B," according to prior reporting.
Since the A-F system launched in 2017-18, CCISD has only received three official ratings due to three years of State of Disaster declarations:
- 2017-18: Not rated due to Hurricane Harvey
- 2018-19: B (89)
- 2019-20: Not rated due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2020-21: Not rated due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2021-22: B (89)
- 2022-23: B (83)
The TEA remains blocked from issuing ratings for the 2023-24 school year due to a separate lawsuit, which is pending in the state appeals court. Morath also said the TEA intends to release ratings for 2024-25 on Aug. 15, per state law.
“A-F ratings are very public, and so that is a leadership challenge that our leaders bear, but this is the cross that we bear for being publicly funded and having the public’s children in our schools. It’s up to us to operate with the highest degree of transparency to deliver the best outcomes that we can for our kids,” Morath said April 22.
Hannah Norton, Ryan Reynolds and Danica Lloyd contributed to this report.
