Friendswood, Texas – At its October 26 workshop, the Friendswood ISD Board of Trustees reviewed the district’s 2025‑26 state accountability results, confirming that the district earned a 92‑point score, which translates to an A rating from the Texas Education Agency (TEA). The rating matches the district’s performance from the prior year, indicating steady overall achievement.

Current accountability scores

The TEA’s annual A‑F accountability system evaluates districts across three categories: academic growth, relative performance, and school progress. Friendswood ISD’s overall score of 92 places it firmly in the A range, but the district’s scores in each individual category remained unchanged from the 2024‑25 school year.

Goal to raise scores by two letter grades

At the start of the 2025‑26 cycle, the district set an ambitious target: increase both academic growth and relative performance scores by two letter grades at each campus and district‑wide by the end of the school year. Those measures fall under the school‑progress category, which tracks how much students improve academically and how campuses perform compared with similar schools.

Academic growth results

Friendswood ISD’s district‑wide academic growth score held steady at 80 for both 2024‑25 and 2025‑26. Individual campuses showed mixed results:

• Windsong Elementary rose from 86 to 91.
• Cline Elementary slipped from 94 to 92.
• Westwood Elementary and Bales Intermediate each climbed from 88 to 90.
• Friendswood Junior High improved from 88 to 89.
• Friendswood High School moved from 65 to 67.

Relative performance results

The district’s relative performance score, which compares schools with similar economically disadvantaged student populations, increased modestly from 73 to 74.

• Windsong Elementary jumped from 60 to 70.
• Cline Elementary rose from 74 to 77.
• Westwood Elementary and Bales Intermediate each edged up from 79 to 80.
• Friendswood Junior High moved from 69 to 70.
• Friendswood High School remained steady at 75.

Looking ahead

Although the district did not meet its two‑grade improvement target, trustees emphasized that each campus has crafted specific action plans to address areas needing attention. Planned initiatives include:

• Additional small‑group instruction to provide more personalized learning.
• Enhanced tracking of student progress to quickly identify and support struggling learners.
• Increased college‑readiness benchmarks to better prepare high‑school students for post‑secondary success.

Board members expressed confidence that these focused strategies will help push the district’s growth and performance scores higher in the next accountability cycle.

Community impact

Friendswood families and local stakeholders have praised the district’s transparency and commitment to continuous improvement. By keeping the community informed of both successes and challenges, the board reinforces the district’s role as a cornerstone of the town’s educational foundation.

Original reporting: Community Impact — Houston — read the source article.