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Geographic public school district
Hill County · Region 12: Waco · 64 students
Official district websiteEnrollment, registration and eligibility
At a glance
Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving down; under the rules in force back then it scored 69 in 2021-22. The current score is below the 77.7 average for 237 rated districts serving a similar economic context.The current score is below the 80.4 average for 77 rated districts in Region 12: Waco.The current score is below the 80.2 average for 12 rated districts in Hill County.The current score is below the 78.2 average for 22 similarly sized rated districts.The current score is below the 81.7 average for 1,019 rated Texas districts.
Evidence worth noticing
Current strength
0% −20.8 pts vs 20.8%
Current strength
96% +2.6 pts vs 93.4%
Current strength
0% −12.3 pts vs 12.3%
Current strength
96% +1 pts vs 95%
Top placement
0% 1st-lowest of 12 districts in Hill County reporting this measure · 2025-26
See the full measureCurrent strength
0% −10.4 pts vs 10.4%
Current strength
0% −15.1 pts vs 15.1%
Current strength
96% +1.5 pts vs 94.5%
Selected positive signals, not a summary of performance. The same rules choose them on every page: only the latest one-year gain, results meaningfully better than the currently selected comparison with broad reporting, and distinctive top-three placements. Demographics, staffing and spending cannot become academic “wins.” The overall rating and the full results below remain the complete picture for this district.
Malone ISD is rated F by TEA, scoring 44 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 77.7 average for 237 rated districts serving a similar economic context. It is down 27 points since 2021-22.
Ranks 237th of 237 rated districts serving a similar economic context.
Malone ISD is rated F by TEA, scoring 44 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 80.4 average for 77 rated districts in Region 12: Waco. It is down 27 points since 2021-22.
Malone ISD is rated F by TEA, scoring 44 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 80.2 average for 12 rated districts in Hill County. It is down 27 points since 2021-22.
Malone ISD is rated F by TEA, scoring 44 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 78.2 average for 22 similarly sized rated districts. It is down 27 points since 2021-22.
Ranks 22nd of 22 similarly sized rated districts.
Malone ISD is rated F by TEA, scoring 44 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 81.7 average for 1,019 rated Texas districts. It is down 27 points since 2021-22.
1 consecutive year rated unacceptable.
Put the numbers in context
Dated TEA notices for campuses in this district. They are shown separately from the district rating because they describe specific campuses, support programs and transfer eligibility.
2026 TEA list
2026–27 school year
| Campus | Notice | Official status or reason |
|---|---|---|
| Malone Elem | CSI | Comprehensive Support and Improvement · CSI Low Performance |
Selected comparison percentages describe how common each dated campus notice is across reporting districts in that group. They are neutral prevalence context; changing the comparison never changes a campus's official status.
Sources: TEA's 2026 Schools Identified for Improvement and Public Education Grant program, fetched 24 August 2026. A PEG listing makes a student assigned to that campus eligible to request a transfer; it does not guarantee acceptance, available space or transportation.
Follow the solid line to see how this district has changed. Turn comparison lines on or off to add context.
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 Not Rated with 69 that year.
Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.
| Year | Rating | Score | Selected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rate | StateTexas average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | F | 44 | 77.7 237 reporting | 81.7 1,019 reporting |
| 2024-25 | B | 88 | 75.5 237 reporting | 80.3 1,019 reporting |
| 2023-24 | D | 69 | 73.7 237 reporting | 78.7 1,017 reporting |
| 2022-23 | C | 77 | 74.2 236 reporting | 79.2 1,018 reporting |
| 2021-22 | C | 71 | 77.0 236 reporting | 80.6 1,017 reporting |
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.
| Domain | Score | Grade | Points to next grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Achievement | 50 | F | 10 |
| School Progress | 50 | F | 10 |
| Closing the Gaps | 30 | F | 30 |
| Academic Growth | 48 | F | 12 |
| Relative Performance | 50 | F | 10 |
Closest to moving up: Student Achievement, 10 points below D in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.
TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%.
Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for districts with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.
Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only districts for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.
Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.
Malone ISD
Selected comparison average For districts with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 237 reporting for every category shown · 237 in full cohort
Selected comparison average For Region 12: Waco · 77 reporting for every category shown · 77 in full cohort
Selected comparison average For Hill County · 12 reporting for every category shown · 12 in full cohort
Selected comparison average For similarly sized districts · 22 reporting for every category shown · 22 in full cohort
Statewide average 1,019 reporting for every category shown · 1,019 Texas districts in full cohort
Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.
The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.
TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.
TEA reported 64 students in 2025–26, an increase of 1 (1.6%) from 2024–25.
2025–26
Increase · +1.6%
Decrease · −58.2%
| School year | Students enrolledMalone ISD | Change from previous school year | Average enrollmentselected comparison |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021–22 | 153 | First available year | 7,407.6 |
| 2022–23 | 128 | Decrease of 25 (16.3%) | 7,412.9 |
| 2023–24 | 91 | Decrease of 37 (28.9%) | 7,312.1 |
| 2024–25 | 63 | Decrease of 28 (30.8%) | 7,231 |
| 2025–26 | 64 | Increase of 1 (1.6%) | 6,995.2 |
The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting districts in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this district's own counts do not.
Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.
These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.
How many students live in one public-school district and attend in another. These are movement counts, not a measure of family satisfaction or school quality.
Live in another district; attend here · 2025–26
Live here; attend in another public district or charter · 2025–26
Arithmetic context only
| School year | Transfers inMalone ISD | Transfers outMalone ISD | In minus outMalone ISD | Transfers inselected comparison average | Transfers outselected comparison average | In minus outselected comparison average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021–22 | 124 | 74 | +50 | 283.4 | 1,290.2 | −1,145 |
| 2022–23 | 98 | 65 | +33 | 327.5 | 1,355 | −1,188 |
| 2023–24 | 60 | 64 | −4 | 349.5 | 1,438.9 | −1,232 |
| 2024–25 | 36 | 61 | −25 | 383.9 | 1,465.9 | −1,231 |
| 2025–26 | 38 | 57 | −19 | 415.8 | 1,487.2 | −1,254 |
Top reported flows only. TEA published 1 of 8 counterpart counts and masked 7.
Top reported flows only. TEA published 1 of 6 counterpart counts and masked 5.
Selected comparison figures are average reported counts, not rates; group size and district enrollment affect them. They provide scale context and are not a performance judgment. This district's official totals do not change when the comparison does.
Source: TEA Student Transfer Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The totals are TEA's official district rows; this site does not add masked detail cells. A transfer records a mismatch between district of residence and public district or charter of attendance. It does not say why a family transferred, whether the move was optional, or whether either school is better.
TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.
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2024–25
| School year | Cumulative enrollment | Studentsall discipline | Students% of enrollment | Actionsall discipline | Actionsper 100 students | Studentsselected comparison average % | Actionsselected comparison average per 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–21 | 175 | Suppressed | — | Suppressed | — | — | — |
| 2021–22 | 173 | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
| 2022–23 | 141 | Suppressed | — | Suppressed | — | — | — |
| 2023–24 | 108 | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
| 2024–25 | 68 | Suppressed | — | Suppressed | — | — | — |
| Category | Students | Students% of enrollment | Actions | Actionsper 100 students | Studentsselected comparison average % | Actionsselected comparison average per 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All discipline | Suppressed | — | Suppressed | — | — | — |
| In-school suspensions | Suppressed | — | Suppressed | — | — | — |
| Out-of-school suspensions | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
| DAEP placements | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
| Mandatory DAEP placements | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
| Discretionary DAEP placements | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
| JJAEP placements | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
| Mandatory JJAEP placements | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
| Discretionary JJAEP placements | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
| Expulsions | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
| Mandatory expulsions | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
| Discretionary expulsions | Not reported | — | Not reported | — | — | — |
Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized districts can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this district's own counts and rates remain fixed.
Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.
Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.
A district serves a place as well as a roster. These Census estimates describe the resident community without treating its circumstances as an explanation or a verdict on students.
2024 Census estimate
Living inside the boundary
18.8%
18 of 96
Population averages provide neutral scale context and can differ sharply across a region, county or the state. The poverty-rate comparison is the like-for-like percentage; none of these Census measures is treated as school performance.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, fetched 24 August 2026. These are modeled estimates for residents inside the geographic district, not the students enrolled by the district. A family's poverty status is context, never a school-quality measure.
The selected comparison is a neutral average district size. This district's school count and school-type mix remain its own facts.
| School | Type | Rating | Score | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malone Elem | Elementary | F | 44 | 64 |
The selected txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference stay visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.
This district spends $9,498 more per student than TEA's peer group, and $21,623 more per student than the state average.
| Year | Malone ISD | TEA peer group | Texas average | Selected comparison average | Reportingselected comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | $11,522 | $14,290 | $13,054 | $14,254 | average for districts with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 237 rated districts reporting |
| 2019 | $12,756 | $14,384 | $13,108 | $14,374 | average for districts with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 237 rated districts reporting |
| 2020 | $12,617 | $16,581 | $14,058 | $15,652 | average for districts with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 237 rated districts reporting |
| 2021 | $15,660 | $17,863 | $14,797 | $17,142 | average for districts with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 237 rated districts reporting |
| 2022 | $18,514 | $19,817 | $15,708 | $19,168 | average for districts with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 237 rated districts reporting |
| 2023 | $18,017 | $21,827 | $16,792 | $21,765 | average for districts with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 237 rated districts reporting |
| 2024 | $27,046 | $33,004 | $18,125 | $21,761 | average for districts with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 237 rated districts reporting |
| 2025 | $40,595 | $31,097 | $18,972 | $22,732 | average for districts with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 237 rated districts reporting |
The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.
Malone ISD
Selected comparison average For districts with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 237 reporting for every category shown · 237 in full cohort
Selected comparison average For Region 12: Waco · 77 reporting for every category shown · 77 in full cohort
Selected comparison average For Hill County · 12 reporting for every category shown · 12 in full cohort
Selected comparison average For similarly sized districts · 22 reporting for every category shown · 22 in full cohort
Statewide average 1,019 reporting for every category shown · 1,019 Texas districts in full cohort
TEA reported a 49.9% teacher turnover rate in 2024–25.
| School year | Teacher turnover rateMalone ISD | Average turnover rateselected comparison |
|---|---|---|
| 2020–21 | 32.5% | 19.1% |
| 2021–22 | 60.2% | 22.1% |
| 2022–23 | 56.2% | 26.5% |
| 2023–24 | 58.3% | 23.7% |
| 2024–25 | 49.9% | 23.6% |
TEA defines this district rate as the share of teacher full-time equivalents from the prior fall who are not employed as teachers in the district in the current fall. That can include leaving the district or remaining in a different role; it is not a campus-level measure. The comparison average changes with the selected group; this district's reported rate does not.
Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.
Out of 105 rankings computed across every published metric and every available comparison group, these are all the measures that meet this site’s distinctive-placement threshold. The list does not change when you change Compare against. Each measure appears once, using its strongest placement. Press Copy for a citable sentence.
First-place results
1 measure
Chronically absent (lowest is best)
Texas average · of the 1,019 that report this measure · tied with 3 · full ranking
Second- and third-place results
1 measure
Per-student spending
Hill County · of the 12 that report this measure
Fourth- through tenth-place results
1 measure
Attendance
Hill County · of the 12 that report this measure · tied with 1
These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this district ranks poorly. Each measure appears once here, using its strongest qualifying placement across all available comparison groups. Very large ties are left out because they do not distinguish this district; any tie that does appear is labeled. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no district would put in a press release.
The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.