Texas Education Agency TEA 2006 Accountability Rating Criteria

Each public school in Texas is rated annually by the TEA as exemplary, recognized, academically acceptable or academically unacceptable. Campus accountability ratings are based on results of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), taken by most students, and the State-Developed Alternative Assessment (SDAA), taken by selected special education students. Additionally, campuses serving grades 9 through 12 are evaluated on the completion rate of their previous year senior class and campuses serving grades 7 and 8 are evaluated on their previous year dropout rate.

As shown below, multiple performance indicators for each TAKS subject area tested are derived for all students and, as applicable, for four student groups: African American, Hispanic, white and economically disadvantaged. Multiple completion and dropout performance indicators are similarly produced for all students, as well as for the four student groups. SDAA tests results for all students tested are used to determine a single campus SDAA performance indicator.

The accountability ratings awarded each campus and the district overall are based on their lowest assessment and completion and dropout indicator. For example, an elementary school where 90 percent of all students and students in each student group pass the TAKS in all subject areas tested (indicating exemplary performance) and students taking the SDAA pass 69 percent of the tests administered (indicating academically acceptable performance) would receive an academically acceptable campus accountability rating.

		exemplary	recognized	academically acceptable

Assessment Indicators

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS)

All students and each student group that meets minimum size criteria:		meet 90% passing standard for each subject	meet 75% passing standard for each subject	meet passing standard for each subject:
•	African American		- or -	•	Reading/ELA	65%
•	Hispanic		meet 70% passing standard and Required Improvement standard	•	Writing	65%
•	White			•	Social studies	65%
•	Economically			•	Mathematics	45%
	disadvantaged			•	Science	40%
				- or -
				meet Required Improvement standard


State-Developed Alternative Assessment (SDAA)

All students if meet minimum size criteria	meet 90% passing standard	meet 70% passing standard	meet 50% passing standard
		- or -	- or -
		meet 65% passing standard and Required Improvement standard	meet Required Improvement standard



Completion and Dropout Indicators

Completion rate

All students and each student group that meets minimum size criteria:		meet 95% completion standard	meet 85% completion standard	meet 75% completion standard
•	African American		- or -	- or -
•	Hispanic		meet 80% completion standard and Required Improvement standard	meet Required Improvement standard
•	White
•	Economically
	disadvantaged


Annual Dropout Rate

All students and each student group that meets minimum size criteria:		meet 0.2% standard	meet 0.7% standard	meet 1.0% standard
•	African American
•	Hispanic
•	White
•	Economically
	disadvantaged


Required Improvement

A campus may achieve a higher annual accountability rating by meeting the various Required Improvement standards specified in the 2007 Accountability Manual. Meeting the applicable Required Improvement standards on any of the TAKS, Completion Rate and Dropout Rate indicators can only result in the campus rating being raised from academically acceptable to recognized or from Academically Unacceptable to academically acceptable. Meeting Required Improvement standards cannot cause a campus rating to be raised to Exemplary.

Source: Texas Education Agency

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