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Tarkington Early Childhood School
Liberty County · Region 04: Houston · 189 students
Tarkington Early Childhood School is rated C by TEA, scoring 73 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 79.9 average of the 2,001 schools serving a similar share of economically disadvantaged students, and below the statewide average of 81.3. It is down 11 points since 2021-22 — both years scored under TEA's current rules, since TEA rewrote them in 2023; under the rules in force back then it scored 80.
Ranks 6,052nd of 7,646 Texas schools (tied with 160 others), and 1,122nd of 1,303 in Region 04: Houston (tied with 22 others).
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5 years of ratings
2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years. Under the original scoring it was rated B with 80 that year.
| Year | Rating | Score | Similar | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | C | 73 | 79.9 | 81.3 |
| 2024-25 | C | 73 | 79.6 | 81.2 |
| 2023-24 | C | 70 | 77.6 | 78.9 |
| 2022-23 | C | 73 | 78.3 | 79.1 |
| 2021-22 | B | 84 | 82.2 | 83.7 |
How this school's change over time is ranked
TEA publishes most measures for one year only, so a change ranking exists just where the same figure is published across years — the overall score, the five score domains, and per-student spending. This page does not yet state where Tarkington Early Childhood School itself places on these lists, only that the lists exist; open one to find this school's own row.
Texas schools
Where the score comes from
Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.
- Tarkington Early Childhood School
- Similar student population (2,001)
- Region 04: Houston (1,303)
| Domain | Score | Grade | Points to next grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Achievement | — | Not rated | — |
| School Progress | — | Not rated | — |
| Closing the Gaps | — | Not rated | — |
| Academic Growth | — | Not rated | — |
| Relative Performance | — | Not rated | — |
Who this school serves
Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.
- Students
- 189
- Economically disadvantaged
- 65.1%−0.1 pts vs similar
- English learners
- 11.6%−6.4 pts vs similar
- Special education
- 12.7%−6.2 pts vs similar
- Attendance
- —
- Chronically absent
- —
Student demographics
- African American 2.1%
- Hispanic 22.8%
- White 70.9%
- Asian 0.5%
- Pacific Islander 0.5%
- Two or More Races 3.2%
Spending per student
Compared against TEA's own peer group, which controls for size and student population, and against the state.
- Tarkington Early Childhood School
- TEA peer group
- Texas average
TEA's published file does not include peer-group spending for this entity, so no comparison is shown.
Not reported by TEA for this entity: peer.
Teachers
- Average salary
- $68,631+$2,232 vs similar
- Teachers
- 11
- Students per staff member
- 17.7
Teaching experience
- Beginning 9.4%
- 1 to 5 years 31.1%
- 6 to 10 years 11.3%
- 11 to 20 years 28.3%
- 21 to 30 years 11.3%
- Over 30 years 9.4%
Where this comes from
Every figure on this page comes from data the Texas Education Agency publishes at txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026 and archived with a checksum so each number stays traceable to the bytes TEA served.
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link here — 9,086 entities in two formats is 18,172 assets, on top of everything else this site
publishes, and that is past the 20,000-asset limit this site is published under. This campus is a row
in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 146907101.