The Texas Education Agency released A-F accountability ratings for the first time in two years Thursday, with Richardson ISD earning a C rating.
Richardson ISD
Ratings released Monday represent scores from the 2022-23 school year. The release of ratings from the 2023-24 school year is currently being blocked by a lawsuit.
A separate lawsuit (which Richardson ISD joined over 100 school districts in) blocked the release of 2022-23 A-F ratings for the last two years over concerns of an unfair update to rating methodology. However, Texas’s 15th Circuit Court of Appeals recently overturned the previous injunction of the ratings’ release, ruling that TEA Commissioner Mike Morath did not overstep his authority in adjusting the rating methodology.
The ratings were released Thursday morning, representing the first complete ratings provided to the public since the COVID-19 pandemic. Ratings for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years were withheld due to COVID-related performance concerns, and ratings in 2022 were heavily impacted by the pandemic’s lingering effects as state law prevented school districts from being assigned D or F ratings.
Richardson ISD earned a C “acceptable performance” rating for the 2022-23 school year, with an overall score of 75 out of 100 possible points. In the last round of ratings released before the pandemic, from the 2018-19 school year, RISD earned a B rating with 88 out of 100 points. Of all Lake Highlands-area schools, only White Rock Elementary earned an A rating. Skyview Elementary scored the lowest with a D rating. A-F ratings for all RISD schools can be found here.
School districts earning a C score are described by the TEA as serving “many students well, but need to provide additional academic support to many more students.” The scores are calculated using a matrix of three category scores: student achievement, school progress and closing the gaps. Category scores are calculated based on standardized test results, academic growth, graduation rates and college, career and military readiness. A school’s progress in comparision to demographically similar campuses is also factored into the ratings. District ratings are a composite of individual campus scores.
Scores for the 2024-25 school year will be released in August, according to a TEA release.
