TEA releases 2025 A-F accountability ratings, restoring transparency

ELLIS COUNTY – The Texas Education Agency (TEA) published its state’s A-F academic accountability system for 2024 and 2025 this past Friday.

You can find all the results at TXschools.gov.

As a reminder, the 2024 release was held up by a lawsuit.

Earlier this month, the 15th Court of Appeals cleared the way for those scores to go public.

This system, according to the TEA, is an “academic accountability system” that evaluates every public school and district across the state on an A-F scale. 
The idea is to allow families a sense of how their campuses are performing.

Under the current system, the state looks at three major categories to determine A-F grades: student achievement, school progress and closing the gaps.

“Student achievement” considers how children performed on the STAAR tests.

For high schools, it also weighs graduation rates and other metrics.

“School progress” factors in how much improvement students made year over year or how well they did in relation to those at comparable campuses.

“Closing the gaps” looks at how schools do in educating children in different groups, such as those living in poverty or receiving special education services.

Seventy percent of the grade is based on either student achievement or school progress – whichever is the higher grade – while closing the gaps makes up 30%.

Avalon ISD: B

2024-25 Student Enrollment: 347 • Schools: 1

Cedar Hill: C

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 6,249 • Schools: 12

DeSoto: C

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 5,708 • Schools: 11

Ennis: C

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 6,626 • Schools: 12

Ferris: B

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 3,003 • Schools: 5

Grand Prairie: C

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 25,903 • Schools: 37

Italy: B

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 594 • Schools: 2

Mansfield: B

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 35,272 • Schools: 47

Maypearl: C

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 1,023 • Schools: 4

Midlothian: B

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 11,324 • Schools: 14

Milford: C

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 258 • Schools: 1

Palmer: B

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 1,348 • Schools: 4

Red Oak: C

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 6,675 • Schools: 8

Venus: D

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 2,281 • Schools: 4

Waxahachie: C

2024-25 Total Student Enrollment: 11,129 • Schools: 18