High school students in Texas have shown improvement in their STAAR scores, with a 5% increase statewide compared to last year. The Texas Education Agency released the scores for high school students’ “end of course” exams, which test how high schoolers across the state performed in key algebra, biology, and english courses.
Local Districts Show Gains
In Tarrant County, the scores were a little higher, with Fort Worth and Lake Worth ISD both seeing gains. Lake Worth is up 10% over last year, and Fort Worth is up 7% after implementing several changes under former Superintendent Karen Molinar. Castleberry ISD also saw significant gains, with English scores up as much as 17%.
The Fort Worth Education Partnership, a group tracking school performance in Tarrant County, is launching a new dashboard on their website that lets users compare district to district and get hyper-specific data on individual campuses. The dashboard will be updated with this year’s numbers next week, when STAAR results from grades 3-8 are released.
Chelsea Jeffrey, of the Commit Partnership, which studies school performance in Dallas County, noted that the gains are a continued slow climb upwards post-COVID. “Traditionally, what you see even prior to COVID is that most school districts are increasing, maybe one, maybe two percentage points year to year. A seven percentage point increase across an entire county-wide system is incredible sustained growth,” she said.
Original reporting: Dallas TX News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
