For the third year in a row, North East ISD, or NEISD, has received a C-rating from the Texas Education Agency, or TEA, according to A-F Accountability ratings released Aug. 15. Ratings were released for both the 2023-24 and the 2024-25 school years.

The details

Texas schools are rated on an A-F scale based on the criteria of student achievement, student progress and closing the opportunity gaps, according to prior Community Impact reporting.According to TEA ratings, 23 schools received an A, 15 schools received a B, 24 received a C and eight schools received a D.

In a news release, Sean Maika, NEISD superintendent, said the district has seen marked improvement over the last few years, such as eliminating all F-rated schools.

“Across our district—we don’t have any failing schools,” Maika said. “We have more A and B rated schools than we have had in the past few years. We continue to improve and our students are growing academically. Despite our growth though, our rating as a district remains a C. In fact, we have earned a 78 from the TEA for the past three years, even though we have increased the number of our campus A’s and B’s and lowered the number of schools who received D’s and F’s. So when you look closely, we aren’t stagnated. We aren’t middle of the road. We are growing the good. That’s good news worth celebrating even if the report card still shows a C.”

NEISD’s 2024-25 student enrollment was 56,155. The school year saw an attendance rate of 93.4% and a chronic absenteeism rate—or students who missed 18 days or more depending on the length of the school year—of 20.3%. According to TEA data, 50.8% of students are economically disadvantaged and 17.1% of students are in special education. Out of the 56,155 students, 20.8% were emergency bilingual/english learner students.