Accountability

A–F Accountability Resources

The 85th Texas Legislature passed House Bill (HB) 22, establishing three domains for measuring the academic performance of districts and campuses: Student Achievement, School Progress, and Closing the Gaps. Districts will receive a rating of A, B, C, D, or F for overall performance, as well as for performance in each domain, beginning in August 2018. Campuses will receive A–F ratings beginning in August 2019. Due to pending legislation, A-F ratings have not be issued for the 2023 or 2024 accountability years. 

The bill also allows districts and charters to develop plans to locally rate their campuses. Once a plan receives approval from the agency, districts and charters may use the locally developed domains and indicators along with the three state domains to assign A–F ratings for each campus. Finally, HB 22 requires a legislative report, due January 1, 2019, showing the overall and domain performance ratings each campus would have received for the 2017–18 school year had the campus A–F ratings been in place. 

A - F Resource Page

2024 Accountability Manual

TEA accredits public schools in Texas at the district level for grades K-12.

Accreditation statuses can be found at this link.  

Texas Education Agency Performance-Based Monitoring staff develops and reports on a variety of data validation indicators, including indicators to examine leaver records, disciplinary data, and student assessment data.

Click here to see the most current data validation manuals.

The Results Driven Accountability (RDA) is an automated data system that reports annually on the performance of local education agencies (LEAs) in selected program areas (bilingual education/English as a second language, career and technical education, certain federal Title programs, and special education). Unless otherwise noted, the term LEA includes open-enrollment charter schools.

Beginning with the 2023-24 school year, the RDA Manual will no longer be a standalone manual but will be incorporated as a chapter in the Accountability Manual. 

Click here for more information about Results Driven Accountability (RDA) Documentation. 

Click here for more information about Results Driven Accountability (RDA) Reports and Data.

Regional and state STAAR data has been updated in Excel templates so that districts may add their own data for comparison.

2025 Accountability FAQs

Please submit questions to the Accountability FAQ HERE.

How do I calculate my district rating?

District domain ratings are calculated using a proportionality method.  This methodology only considers campus enrollment counts for grades 3-12, excludes Not Rated and paired campuses, is applied to each domain, and includes campuses evaluated under alternative education accountability.  Step 1: Determine the number of students enrolled in grades 3-12 at the district at each campus in the TSDS-PEIMS October Snapshot.  Step 2: Sum the number of students enrolled in grades 3-12 at the district.  Step 3: Divide the number of grades 3-12 students at the campus by the district total.  The resulting percentage is the weight that each campus contributes to the district domain score.  Step 4: Multiply the campus domain scaled score b its weight to determine the points. Step 5: Sum the points for all campuses to determine the district's domain score.  Step 6:  Once you have all the domain scores, calculate the rating using the methodology of 70% of the highest of the Student Achievement or School Progress domain score and 30% of the Closing the Gaps domain score. **See the 2023 Accountability Manual on pages 54-55 for limits on overall ratings based on domain scores. 

If a campus isn't rated in a domain, how does this affect district ratings?

If a campus is not rated in a domain, the weights are determined by only those campuses with a domain rating.  For example, a campus can have a weighted contribution to domain one and two, but not be part of the domain three weighted average if they were only rated in domains one and two and not rated in domain three.