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Best School Districts in Dallas / Fort Worth

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.


Top 10 DFW school districts


   
average campus accountability rating
number of campuses rated
1
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.


School districts serving the northwest Dallas suburbs

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.



   
average campus accountability
rating
northwest Dallas suburbs served
1
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
5
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



School districts serving the DFW metroplex

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.

     
number of campuses rated
 

district rating
average campus accountability
rating

exemplary

recognized
academically
acceptable
academically
unacceptable
Allen ISD
Recognized
2.50
10
7
1
 
Argyle ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.00
1
1
1
 
Arlington ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.26
3
15
49
3
Aubrey ISD
Recognized
2.00
 
4
   
Azle ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.40
 
4
6
 
Birdville ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.77
6
12
16
 
Carroll ISD
Exemplary
3.00
10
     
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD
Recognized
1.81
8
14
15
 
Cedar Hill ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.62
1
6
6
 
Celina ISD
Recognized
2.00
1
2
1
 
Coppell ISD
Recognized
2.86
12
2
   
Crandall ISD
Recognized
1.60
 
3
2
 
Crowley ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.13
 
2
14
 
Dallas ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.48
26
77
100
21
Denton ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.61
3
11
14
 
DeSoto ISD
Academically Acceptable
.75
   
9
3
Duncanville ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.00
6
5
6
 
Ennis ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.00
2
4
2
 
Ferris ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.25
 
1
3
 
Forney ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.44
 
4
5
 
Fort Worth ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.22
2
32
75
10
Frisco ISD
Recognized
2.47
21
11
4
 
Garland ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.79
8
38
22
 
Grand Prairie ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.39
2
10
24
 
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD
Recognized
2.22
9
4
5
 
Highland Park ISD
Exemplary
3.00
7
     
Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD
Recognized
2.14
8
16
4
 
Irving ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.28
 
9
23
 
Kaufman ISD
Recognized
1.50
 
3
3
 
Keller ISD
Recognized
2.21
13
14
6
 
Kennedale ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.40
 
2
3
 
Lake Dallas ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.67
 
4
2
 
Lancaster ISD
Academically Acceptable
0.89
   
8
1
Lewisville ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.12
23
21
16
 
Little Elm ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.63
 
5
3
 
Lovejoy ISD
Exemplary
2.50
2
2
   
Mansfield ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.76
8
11
14
1
McKinney ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.93
10
6
12
 
Mellisa ISD
Recognized
2.50
2
2
   
Mesquite ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.67
5
20
20
 
Midlothian ISD
Recognized
2.25
4
2
2
 
Northwest ISD
Recognized
2.13
5
8
3
 
Plano ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.19
28
19
16
 
Red Oak ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.57
 
4
3
 
Richardson ISD
Recognized
2.38
27
19
7
 
Rockwall ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.00
5
7
5
 
Royce City ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.57
1
2
4
 
Sunnyvale ISD
Exemplary
3.00
2
     
Terrell ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.00
   
5
 
Waxahachie ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.60
1
4
5
 
Wylie ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.71
2
8
7
 


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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