The Texas Education Agency has released the accountability rating for the 2025-2026 school year. Some Lubbock-area school districts on the list have increased their ratings, and some have decreased.
The accountability rating accounts for student achievement, school progress and “closing the gaps.”
When evaluating student achievement, the agency looks at the results from the school’s State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test, College, Career, and Military Readiness (CCMR) and graduation rates.
The school progress score takes into account the academic growth of the school measured by the STARR tests and which students grew at least one year academically. Also, which students “Did Not Meet Grade Level” in the prior year and “Approaches Grade Level or above” in the current year percentage wise. The second part of this section is relative performance. The agency looks at comparing campuses that have similar economically disadvantaged percentages.
Closing the gaps focuses on data that shows the schools’ long-term and short-term goals for racial/ethnic groups, socioeconomic backgrounds, and other factors.
All of the following scores are rated out of 100.
Lubbock-Cooper ISD:
Lubbock-Cooper ISD had an overall score of 87 this past school year. In the previous two years, they have scored 88 and 87.
They were graded very similarly across the board. Student achievement scored an 88, school progress scored an 87, and closing the gaps scored an 85.
The demographic information of the students showed more than 51% were white, more than 40% were Hispanic and about 3% were African American. Just over 34% of Lubbock-Cooper ISD students were reported as economically disadvantaged, and 17.4% were in special education.
80% of the schools in this district scored an A or B, and none of the schools failed.
Lubbock-Cooper ISD had 8,094 students enrolled in 2025-2026, with an average of 12.5 students per teacher.
Frenship ISD:
Frenship ISD scored a 77 in overall rating for the 2025-2026 school year, which is down 3 points from 2024-2025. In 2023-2024, they received a score of 79.
The school was graded a 79 on student achievement and a 78 on school progress. They then dropped to a 73 for closing the gap.
The students’ demographic information for Frenship showed 51% of students last year were Hispanic, about 36% were white and 5.3% were African American. More than 56% of Frenship ISD students were reported as economically disadvantaged, and 19.4% were in special education.
About 46% of the schools were graded an A or B, with no schools receiving an F.
12,042 students were enrolled at Frenship ISD during this time with an average of 14.6 students per teacher.
Lubbock ISD:
Lubbock ISD scored an 82 overall, which is a small increase from 2024-2025 when they scored an 80. In 2023-2024 the school’s rating was 78.
Lubbock ISD students’ demographic statistics show more than 61% of students were Hispanic, 20.3% were white and 13.3% were African American. Lubbock ISD also reported that nearly 72% of students were economically disadvantaged, and 21.7% were in special education.
Student achievement had a rating of 78, school progress was an 83 and closing the gaps was a 79.
This school district had almost 46% of their schools graded an A or B. They did have three schools that failed though: Atkins Middle School, Bean Elementary (Prekindergarten-3rd grade) and Carmona-Harrison Elementary.
Lubbock ISD enrolled 23,029 students in 2025-2026 and averaged 13.3 students per teacher.
You can find ratings of individual schools, more Texas districts, and specific categories at txschools.gov or you can compare schools and districts side-by-side here.