Four months after releasing the 2023 ratings, the Texas Education Agency has released the 2024 and 2025 A-F academic accountability ratings.
The ratings were previously being held back by a court order due to a lawsuit against the TEA, arguing the 2023 change in standards were unfair.
Now, schools and parents can access the past three years of ratings.
For the 2024-25 school year, all three of Lubbock’s biggest school districts – Lubbock ISD, Frenship ISD, and Lubbock-Cooper ISD – received a B as an overall rating. And all three showed improvement over the previous school year.
What the scores mean
The A-F rating system was established by the Texas Legislature in 2017 to ensure student success, district accountability, and transparency.
The ratings focus on three areas: student achievement, school progress, and closing the gaps.
Student achievement measures performance on the STAAR test, graduation rates, and preparedness for life after graduation – be it the workforce, the military, or higher education.
School progress analyses student success year-to-year and compares schools to others with similar demographics.
These two categories account for 70% of a school or district’s overall rating. The remaining 30% is in closing the gaps.
Closing the gaps reflects the success of all students. Students are measured in four groups: all students, high focus students – meaning those who are economically disadvantaged, learning English as a second language, in special education programs, and/or students who transfer schools frequently – and “the two lowest performing racial/ethnic student groups from the previous school year.” Success in this category accounts for academic growth, STARR test scores, graduation rates, and post-high school readiness.
Overall district ratings are determined based on performance in the three key domains and weighing the scores of each individual campus in the district.
All of the following scores are rated out of 100.
Lubbock Independent School District
Lubbock ISD received an overall score of 80 out of 100 for the last school year. The two previous school years, LISD scored a 78 and a 79.
The district’s student achievement was rated 76, school progress came in at 81, and closing the gaps was 78.
LISD received a financial accountability rating of 100.
Lubbock ISD had 48 schools, 24,007 students, and an average 13.5 students per teacher.
Demographic information regarding student enrollment shows that 72% of LISD students were economically disadvantaged, 19.7% were in special education, 61.1% were Hispanic, 20.3% were white, and 13.4% were African American.
Nearly 48% of LISD schools received an A or B. While three of its schools, Dunbar College Preparatory Academy, Irons Middle School, and O.L. Slaton Middle School, received an F.
Frenship Independent School District
Frenship ISD scored 80 out of 100 overall for the 2024-25 school year. The previous school year it received a 79, and the year before that it received an 82.
The school progress score for Frenship was 76 and its scores for both student achievement and closing the gaps was 80.
Its financial accountability rating was 90.
Frenship had a total enrollment of 11,743 students, with an average 15.5 students per teacher. The district has 14 schools.
The students’ demographic information shows that 45.8% of Frenship ISD students were economically disadvantaged, 17.6% were in special education, 50.3% were Hispanic, 37.8% were white, and 5.1% were African American.
Almost 43% of the district’s campuses had a score of A or B. The lowest-rated Frenship ISD school was Willow Bend Elementary with a D.
Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District
This past school year, Lubbock-Cooper ISD got an overall district rating of 88. In 2023-24 it received an 87 and in 2022-23 it received an 89.
Lubbock-Cooper scored 88 in both student achievement and closing the gaps and 80 in school progress.
The district received a financial accountability rating of 96.
Lubbock-Cooper ISD had a total of 7,992 students enrolled across its 10 schools, with an average 12.4 students per teacher.
Student demographic information shows that 29.5% of the district’s students were economically disadvantaged, 15.4% were in special education, 51.4% were white, 40.5% were Hispanic, and 2.9% were African American.
80% of Lubbock-Cooper’s schools received an A or B rating. It did not have any schools rated D or F.
You can search the ratings of individual schools, more Texas districts, and in specific categories at txschools.gov or you can compare schools and districts side-by-side here.