The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released Wednesday the 2018 state accountability ratings for 1,200 school districts and district charters. Beginning this year, all multi-campus school districts and charters receive an accountability rating based on an A–F scale. The TEA didn't rate the Houston Independent School District (HISD) because it met at least one of the Hurricane Harvey criteria announced in June. School district ratings (including charter operators) by category include: The previous chart does not include A–F ratings for single-campus school districts and charters. Those districts are not labeled A–F and continue to receive one of three ratings: Met Standard, Met Alternative Standard or Improvement Required. School district ratings (including charter operators) by category include: A total of 92 school districts, including HISD, and district charters would have received a rating of B, C, D or F, but met at least one of the Hurricane Harvey criteria announced in June. Therefore, those districts are labeled Not Rated: Harvey Provision. The Not Rated: Harvey Provision districts include: Aldine ISD; Alief ISD; Alvin ISD; Angleton ISD; Anahuac ISD; Aransas County ISD; Aransas Pass ISD; Arrow Academy (Houston); Austwell-Tivoli ISD; Beaumont ISD; Bloomington ISD; Boling ISD; Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity (Houston); Brazosport ISD; Bridge City ISD; Buna ISD; Burkeville ISD; Calhoun County ISD; Channelview ISD; Cleveland ISD; Coldspring-Oakhurst CISD; Columbia-Brazoria ISD; Cypress-Fairbanks ISD; Danbury ISD; Dayton ISD; Deer Park ISD; Deweyville ISD; Dickinson ISD; Draw Academy (Houston); East Chambers ISD; El Campo ISD; Evadale ISD; Evolution Academy Charter School (Beaumont, Richardson, Spring); Fort Bend ISD; Galena Park ISD; Galveston ISD; Goose Creek CISD; Gregory-Portland ISD; Hamshire-Fannett ISD; Hardin-Jefferson ISD; Hitchcock ISD; Houston ISD; Huffman ISD; Hull-Daisetta ISD; Humble ISD; Ingleside ISD; International Leadership of Texas (Houston, Richmond); Kipp Inc. Charter (Houston); Kountze ISD; Kirbyville CISD; La Grange ISD; Lamar CISD; Liberty ISD; Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD; Lumberton ISD; Nederland ISD; Odyssey Academy Inc. (El Lago, Galveston); Orangefield ISD; Palacios ISD; Pasadena ISD; Port Arthur ISD; Port Neches-Groves ISD; Promise Community School (Houston); Raul Yzaguirre School for Success (Houston); Refugio ISD; Rice CISD; Royal ISD; Runge ISD; Santa Fe ISD; Ser-Ninos Charter School (Houston); Sheldon ISD; Silsbee ISD; Spring Branch ISD; Spring ISD; Southwest School (Houston); Spurger ISD; Sweeny ISD; Taft ISD; Takoa Academy of Accelerated Studies (Orange, Port Arthur); Tarkington ISD; Texas Serenity Academy (Houston); Texas City ISD; The Pro-Vision Academy (Houston); The Rhodes School (Houston, Channelview); The Varnett Public Schools (Houston); Victoria ISD; Vidor ISD; West Hardin County CISD; West Orange-Cove CISD; Wharton ISD; Woodsboro ISD and Yes Prep Public Schools Inc. (Houston). Not rated for reasons other than Hurricane Harvey In addition, 13 districts received a Not Rated label for reasons other than Hurricane Harvey. A complete list of all Not Rated school districts and district charters can be found on the TEA website at http://tea.texas.gov/accountability/. The website TXschools.org allows to view the report cards. Parents can search by district or school name and compare that district's or school's performance to others in their area. Three areas Districts receive a grade or rating based on performance in three areas. The first one is called ‘Student Achievement' and measures what students know and can do by the end of the year. It includes results from state assessments across all subjects for all students, on both general and alternate assessments, College, Career, and Military Readiness (CCMR) indicators, like AP and ACT results, and graduation rates. The second area is ‘School Progress'. It measures how much better students are doing on the STAAR test this year versus last year, and how much better students are doing academically relative to schools with similar percentages of economically disadvantaged students. The third area is called ‘Closing the Gaps' and looks at performance among student groups, including various racial/ethnic groups, socioeconomic backgrounds and other factors. Seventy percent of the accountability rating is based on the better of Student Achievement or Student Progress (whichever is better is the only performance measure counted in the calculations). The remaining 30 percent is based on performance in the Closing the Gaps area. Appeals Districts, charters, and campuses can appeal the rating assigned and the TEA will release the final 2018 ratings based on the outcomes of the appeals in December. Subscribe to Today in Houston Fill out the form below to subscribe our new daily editorial newsletter from the HPM Newsroom. Email* First Name Last Name * required<doc-sep>Stars Use 4-Goal Second Period To Dominate Blue Jackets 5-1Joe Pavelski scored his team-high 18th goal of the season as one of five Dallas players with a goal and an assist, and the Stars scored four times in 6½ minutes in the second period to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-1 on Saturday night.<doc-sep>The Texas Education Agency released 2018 academic accountability ratings for school districts across the state on Wednesday, officially implementing an A-F letter grade system. San Angelo ISD earned a C rating with a score of 77. "This measurement is basically a one-day assessment that occurs during the school year," said Superintendent Carl Dethloff. "At SAISD, we value numerous assessments. So we believe multiple assessments lead to a successful educational experience." "At the same time, we don't run and hide from accountability," Dethloff said. "We know we have some learning gaps and we are working with action steps to ensure all kids learn and we have equitable access to our curriculum." The grades were determined by combining the higher score between either student performance on standardized testing or school growth year over year, weighing it about 70 percent. The other 30 percent of the overall grade is in the closing the gaps indicator, which varies at the individual school level depending on what grade levels are served. Dethloff said the district continues to "meet standard" as they have in the past years, and he is proud of his educators, staff and parents. He noted that the new A-F system has "a lot of opposition." "If you look across Texas, many school districts, many parents are in opposition because it's just hard to grasp how one letter grade can cover a comprehensive educational experience for a child," Dethloff said. "For us it's just a label the state gives us," he said. "For us, we're going to continue about our business, and that's to provide a meaningful and inspiring and engaging education for kids." Under the new system, the grades mean: A: Exemplary performance B: Recognized performance C: Acceptable performance D: In need of improvement F: Unacceptable performance Several area districts received "Met Standard" rather than a letter grade. They were among 103 districts that could not be rated under the new system because they did not have enough assessment results to meet minimum-size requirements. No area districts received an F. Most received a C or above. Grape Creek ISD was the only area district to receive a D. Standout districts receiving an A were Irion County, Mason, Miles and Wall. Individual campuses received ratings under the outgoing "met standard" or "improvement required" system but also received numerical grades that indicate where they would fall on the A-F rating system, which will be implemented for campuses in 2019. Fort Concho Elementary had the highest score of SAISD campuses, earning an 89. Several schools received "improvement required" markings, including Lincoln Middle School, the only SAISD campus to receive that rating for a second year in a row. Other SAISD campuses with "improvement required" were Glenn Middle School, Alta Loma Elementary, Austin Elementary, Bowie Elementary and Goliad Elementary. Statewide, 7,818 campuses, or 95.7 percent of schools, met state standards this year, a slight increase from 95.4 percent in 2017. Interactive accountability rating summaries and detailed reports for each district, campus and open-enrollment charter school can be found at txschools.org. Concho Valley-area district grades SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADE SCORE Ballinger C 77 Brady B 88 Bronte Met standard 91 Brownwood C 73 Christoval B 82 Crockett County C 74 Eden Met standard 83 Grape Creek D 69 Irion County A 93 Junction B 81 Lohn Met standard 78 Mason A 96 Menard C 72 Miles A 94 Paint Rock C 75 Reagan County C 74 Robert Lee B 86 San Angelo C 77 San Saba B 87 Schleicher County B 84 Sonora B 87 Sterling City B 80 TLC Academy C 78 Veribest B 83 Wall A 97 Water Valley B 84 Winters C 79 Scores for individual schools<doc-sep>
The Texas Education Agency released its accountability ratings Wednesday morning, officially assigning districts an A-through-F letter grade for the first time. While 47 of 123 local charter and traditional districts were not given an official ranking after receiving accountability waivers tied to Hurricane Harvey, nearly 62 percent of those that were rated earned A's and B's, 26 percent were given C's and 12 percent received D's or F's. RELATED: Houston ISD to avoid sanctions after four long-struggling schools all meet standard Harmony School of Science - Houston, which includes one campus, and rural Devers ISD in Liberty County scored the highest of all Houston-area ISD or charter school districts, both earning a score of 96 and an A grade overall. Rounding out the top local districts were Barbers Hill ISD (95), Friendswood ISD (95), Houston Gateway Academy (94), Harmony School of Excellence (94) and Pearland ISD (94). The lowest performing district in the state, A+ Unlimited Potential charters, is located in Harris County. It earned a score of 45. Damon ISD earned a score of 50, charter district Meyerpark Elementary earned a 62, Comquest Academy charter district received a 62 and Santa Fe ISD (the site of a mass shooting in May) earned a 63. Campuses still received ratings of "met standard" or "improvement required," but both districts and campuses were judged on a new set of criteria and on a new scale thanks to legislation passed in 2017. At the campus level, three Houston-area campuses received the highest scores of any schools in the state, earning a 99 out of 100: Spring Branch Academic Institute in Spring Branch ISD, and DeBakey and Carnegie Vanguard high schools in Houston ISD. Another nine local schools earned 98 out of 100 points. The Lane School in Aldine ISD earned the third lowest rating in the state, a 34. Other local schools with low scores were A+Up University charter (44), Victory Prep Academy South charter (48), The Varnett School Southeast charter (49) and Kashmere High in Houston ISD (49) If individual schools were assigned letter grades based on scale scores, 21 percent of those in the greater Houston area would have received A's, 33 percent would be rated as B's, 31 percent would have gotten C's, 10 percent would be labeled as D's and five percent, or 84 schools, would have been F's. Nowhere were the ratings more consequential than in the Houston Independent School District, where four campuses must be rated as "met standard" or risk triggering school closures or a state takeover of the entire district. Houston Chronicle All four campuses - Mading and Wesley elementaries, Woodson PK-8 and Worthing High - met the state's standard this year, staving off potential state action. Local schools that were among the most devastated by Hurricane Harvey seemed to perform well. Kingwood and Summer Creek high schools in Humble ISD both met the state's academic standards after having to share one campus for most of the 2017-2018 school year. C.E. King High in Sheldon ISD, which flooded and saw more than 65 of its students lose their homes in the storm, also met the state's standard, scoring a 78 out of 100 possible points on the accountability system's scale score. Creech Elementary in Katy ISD, and Robinson, Braeburn, Scarborough, Kolter and Mitchell elementaries in Houston ISD also met the state's academic standard after their campuses flooded. Houston ISD test scores explained: Growth at struggling schools, sanctions still loom Breakdown of grades for Houston-region schools Please note that the letter grades for schools here were assigned by the Houston Chronicle, not by the Texas Education Agency. This is an unofficial letter grade based on the overall grade. The state's new accountability system based 70 percent of each school and district rating on the highest scaled score earned among three categories: raw student achievement, student progress and performance relative to percentages of economically disadvantaged students. Another 30 percent of the grades were determined by schools' and districts' success in closing achievement gaps between different demographic groups, including at-risk students, English-language learners and students of different races. Officials use those metrics to calculate an overall scale score that ranges from zero to 100, which match up with letter grades. Any scale scores below a 60 translate to F's, scores below 70 equate to D's, grades below 80 would be C's, scores below 90 would be B's and scores of 90 or above would be A's.