In August the Texas Education Agency released its annual accountability ratings, and for the first time school districts in Texas received an A-F grade to indicate how schools performed overall in categories such as student achievement and school progress. However, many districts, including Spring ISD, did not receive an overall rating this year. The reason lies in the effect Hurricane Harvey had on the region. TEA announced in August that school districts were eligible to be Not Rated under the Hurricane Harvey provision if the districts meet certain criteria. Districts qualify based on whether Harvey affected campuses. For example, a campus qualified to be Not Rated if it had least 10 percent of enrolled students or teachers displaced or homeless due to Harvey; or the campus must have been closed for 10 or more school days due to the storm; or the campus itself was displaced by the storm. SISD would have received a C overall, if the Not Rated designation had not taken effect. Klein ISD, which did not receive an exemption, scored a B rating.