Four school districts in the Dallas / Fort Worth area were awarded exemplary ratings by the Texas Education Agency for the 2007-2008 school year. Three of these districts top this ranking of the DFW metroplex's top school districts.
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Carroll ISD |
3.00 |
11 |
1 |
Highland Park ISD |
3.00 |
7 |
1 |
Sunnyvale ISD |
3.00 |
2 |
4 |
Coppell ISD |
2.86 |
15 |
5 |
Allen ISD |
2.50 |
19 |
5 |
Lovejoy ISD |
2.50 |
4 |
5 |
Melissa ISD |
2.50 |
4 |
8 |
Frisco ISD |
2.47 |
37 |
9 |
Richardson ISD |
2.38 |
56 |
10 |
Midlothian ISD |
2.25 |
8 |
District accountability ratings and campus accountability rating information for school districts located in the DFW metroplex are shown at the bottom of this page. Also provided is a description of the methodology used to develop the average campus accountability rating on which this ranking is based.
Many of the school districts in the metroplex have campuses in more than one city or town. The Lewisville Independent School District, for example, serves not only the seven northwest Dallas suburbs listed in the table below, but also Lewisville, Carrollton, and The Colony. A question I hear frequently is how to do the schools that serve the northwest Dallas suburbs compare to other schools in the metroplex. As is shown below and discussed further on this Northwest Dallas Public Schools page, if the following school districts had campuses only in the northwest Dallas suburbs listed, they would compare very well indeed.
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Carroll ISD |
3.00 |
Southlake, Grapevine, Westlake |
2 |
Coppell ISD |
2.85 |
Coppell |
3 |
Northwest ISD |
2.60 |
Trophy Club, Southlake, Flower Mound, Keller |
4 |
Lewisville ISD |
2.48 |
Flower Mound, Highland Village, Coppell, Copper Canyon, Double Oak, southwest Frisco, west Plano |
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Keller ISD |
2.36 |
Keller, Southlake, Westlake |
6 |
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD |
2.29 |
Colleyville, Grapevine |
6 |
Frisco ISD |
2.29 |
southwest Frisco, west Plano |
8 |
Argyle ISD |
2.00 |
Argyle, Bartonville, Flower Mound |
9 |
Plano ISD |
1.90 |
west Plano, southwest Frisco |
The following table shows district and individual campus rating information for the 51 independent school districts that operate public schools attended by students living in the greater Dallas / Fort Worth metropolitan area.
| Allen ISD |
Recognized |
2.50 |
10 |
7 |
1 |
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| Argyle ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
2.00 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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| Arlington ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.26 |
3 |
15 |
49 |
3 |
| Aubrey ISD |
Recognized |
2.00 |
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4 |
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| Azle ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.40 |
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4 |
6 |
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| Birdville ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.77 |
6 |
12 |
16 |
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| Carroll ISD |
Exemplary |
3.00 |
10 |
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| Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD |
Recognized |
1.81 |
8 |
14 |
15 |
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| Cedar Hill ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.62 |
1 |
6 |
6 |
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| Celina ISD |
Recognized |
2.00 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
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| Coppell ISD |
Recognized |
2.86 |
12 |
2 |
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| Crandall ISD |
Recognized |
1.60 |
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3 |
2 |
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| Crowley ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.13 |
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2 |
14 |
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| Dallas ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.48 |
26 |
77 |
100 |
21 |
| Denton ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.61 |
3 |
11 |
14 |
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| DeSoto ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
.75 |
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9 |
3 |
| Duncanville ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
2.00 |
6 |
5 |
6 |
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| Ennis ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
2.00 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
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| Ferris ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.25 |
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1 |
3 |
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| Forney ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.44 |
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4 |
5 |
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| Fort Worth ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.22 |
2 |
32 |
75 |
10 |
| Frisco ISD |
Recognized |
2.47 |
21 |
11 |
4 |
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| Garland ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.79 |
8 |
38 |
22 |
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| Grand Prairie ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.39 |
2 |
10 |
24 |
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| Grapevine-Colleyville ISD |
Recognized |
2.22 |
9 |
4 |
5 |
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| Highland Park ISD |
Exemplary |
3.00 |
7 |
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| Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD |
Recognized |
2.14 |
8 |
16 |
4 |
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| Irving ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.28 |
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9 |
23 |
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| Kaufman ISD |
Recognized |
1.50 |
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3 |
3 |
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| Keller ISD |
Recognized |
2.21 |
13 |
14 |
6 |
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| Kennedale ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.40 |
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2 |
3 |
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| Lake Dallas ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.67 |
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4 |
2 |
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| Lancaster ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
0.89 |
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8 |
1 |
| Lewisville ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
2.12 |
23 |
21 |
16 |
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| Little Elm ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.63 |
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5 |
3 |
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| Lovejoy ISD |
Exemplary |
2.50 |
2 |
2 |
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| Mansfield ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.76 |
8 |
11 |
14 |
1 |
| McKinney ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.93 |
10 |
6 |
12 |
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| Mellisa ISD |
Recognized |
2.50 |
2 |
2 |
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| Mesquite ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.67 |
5 |
20 |
20 |
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| Midlothian ISD |
Recognized |
2.25 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
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| Northwest ISD |
Recognized |
2.13 |
5 |
8 |
3 |
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| Plano ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
2.19 |
28 |
19 |
16 |
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| Red Oak ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.57 |
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4 |
3 |
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| Richardson ISD |
Recognized |
2.38 |
27 |
19 |
7 |
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| Rockwall ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
2.00 |
5 |
7 |
5 |
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| Royce City ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.57 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
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| Sunnyvale ISD |
Exemplary |
3.00 |
2 |
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| Terrell ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.00 |
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5 |
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| Waxahachie ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.60 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
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| Wylie ISD |
Academically Acceptable |
1.71 |
2 |
8 |
7 |
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Methodology
Texas Education Agency (TEA) campus accountability ratings for the 2007-2008 school year, was used in this evaluation and ranking of Dallas / Fort Worth area school districts. While using a single factor to rank the school districts might be considered a somewhat simplistic approach, the criteria used by the TEA to award these accountability ratings are comprehensive and applied as consistently as possible to measure the performance of all public schools in the state of Texas. These ratings also have the added virtue of being readily available.
To develop the average campus accountability rating used to rank the school districts, each campus with an exemplary rating was awarded three points, a recognized rating merited two points, an academically acceptable rating was given one point and an academically unacceptable rating received zero points. For each district, the points awarded to its individual campuses were accumulated and then divided by the number of campuses in the district that were rated by the TEA for the 2006-2007 school year.
Source: Texas Education Agency
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