With the recent dismissal of a lawsuit regarding Texas school districts’ accountability ratings, the Texas Education Agency has released scores for 2023.
Round Rock ISD earned an 87, or a B, from the agency. A district’s rating is made up of three domains—Student Achievement, School Progress and Closing the Gaps. High school and district ratings also take into account college, career and military readiness rates, graduation and dropout rates.
Round Rock ISD earned an 87 in Student Achievement, an 86 in Closing the Gaps, and an 82 in School Progress. Seventy percent of schools in the district received an A or B, and no campuses were rated an F.
“We are so incredibly proud of all our students, teachers and families for their hard work and achievement,” said Superintendent Hafedh Azaiez. “We’re always reaching for the next level, and we’ll continue to do so. This shows how well our students can do, even when the rules change in the middle of the game.”
One hundred twenty school districts throughout the state sued TEA to prevent the agency from releasing scores for the 2022 and 2023 school years, on the grounds that TEA changed the benchmarks for schools and districts to reach the highest ratings, along with changing the STAAR test itself. A separate lawsuit is currently preventing the release of scores for the 2024 school year.
The higher benchmarks were not announced at the start of the 2022–23 school year, meaning most districts could not adjust classes, curriculum or teaching practices to ensure students could meet the new, higher standards.
This is the first year since 2022 that districts have received ratings from TEA. The system was paused for the 2020 and 2021 school years as districts, students, and educators learned through the COVID pandemic.
