Texas school rankings

• Every list names its population and its n.
• Ties are shown as ties: two districts sharing 3rd both read 3rd, and the next reads 5th.
• Entities TEA did not rate are excluded, not counted as zero, and each page says how many.
• Student demographics — economic disadvantage, English learners, special education — are never ranked. They describe who a school serves, not how it did.
• Each list publishes only the end where 1st place is the best result — the highest score, the lowest dropout rate, the largest gain — never the worst end of the same ordering. Every district's and campus's own page shows its figure for every measure.
• 16 counties have at least 10 rated districts — the same floor every ranking on this site refuses to publish a placement under — and get a ranking board of their own. The other 237 of Texas's 253 counties fall short of that floor; each keeps its county hub page's own score-ordered list instead of a board here.

TEA publishes most measures for the current year only. Where a list ranks change over time, the underlying figure is one TEA publishes for several years — the overall score, the domain scores, per-student spending. Nothing else here is presented as a trend.

A ranking by a raw figure is not a measure of teaching quality on its own: it correlates with school size and, more strongly, with how many of a school's students live in poverty. Every entity page on this site instead compares a school against a peer group — districts with districts, campuses with campuses — whose share of economically disadvantaged students falls within 10 percentage points of its own. This list does not: it orders by the raw figure alone. How the peer group is chosen.

2 further orderings were computed and not published: each covered fewer than 10 rated entities, and a placement out of nine is not a placement. Those populations are listed in full on their region and county pages.