How are the A-F ratings communicated to the public?

When ratings go public, they are available at TXschools.gov and on the TEA Accountability Rating System [...]

For the 2024 graduates who earn an IBC plus 1 course in aligned program of study. Can the course be taken before 9th grade?

The aligned program of study course may have been taken in middle school, but the IBC cannot have been taken before September 1 of the student’s freshman year. Best practice is for the student to have taken the course and the aligned IBC the same [...]

Do students earn CCMR credit for enrolling in U.S. Military Academy?

When a high school student is accepted to a U.S. military institution of higher education (IHE) or academy (West Point, Naval Academy, Air Force Academy) they are not enlisting in the military, and do not receive a DD form 4. Not until their 3rd (Junior) year of the academy do they formally enlist in the military and owe a military commitment. Acceptance into a military IHE is the same as [...]

What are the criteria to exit Additional Targeted Support (ATS)?

A campus may exit ATS to TSI status if the campus continues to meet TSI criteria and ceases to have at least one consistently underperforming student group that did not meet any evaluated indicators. Also, a campus may exit both ATS and TSI status if the campus has no consistently underperforming student groups for that [...]

How is a campus identified for Additional Targeted Support (ATS)?

ATS identification is based on the subset of TSI-identified campuses. Any TSI identified campus has its identification escalated to ATS if it has at least one student group that did not meet any of its evaluated indicators for three consecutive years. This methodology has been updated to identify student groups that received a NO in 2019 and 2022 and a 0/1 in [...]