Ranked list · Region 12: Waco school districts

Region 12: Waco school districts with the largest overall score gains since 2021-22

76 districts · since 2021-22 · TEA data fetched 15 August 2026

The change in overall score since 2021-22, from TEA's re-scored "2021-22 What If" figure to the figure it published for 2025-26. TEA re-scored 2021-22 under the rules it adopted for 2022-23 and publishes that re-scoring as "2021-22 What If". This ranking reads the re-scored series, so the change spans one consistent methodology rather than a break. Measured across Region 12: Waco school districts, of which 76 districts are ranked below.

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What this ranking counts

76 districts of 77 districts are ranked here.

1 has no figure at the start of the window and is not ranked.

Ordered by the largest rise first. A negative figure is a decline.

66 of the ranked districts share a placement with at least one other. Tied districts print the same placement and the next placement skips, so two districts sharing 3rd are both 3rd and the one behind them is 5th.

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, because a comparison against the state average measures the composition of a school's intake at least as much as anything the school did. This list does not: it orders by the raw figure alone. How the peer group is chosen.

The top 22

22 rows, not 20: 6 districts share 17th place, and cutting a tie in half is how a ranked list stops being true. The full list follows.

Region 12: Waco school districts with the largest overall score gains since 2021-22: the leading 22 of 76 districts
Rank	District	County	Rating	Largest gain in overall score	2021-22 "What If"	2025-26	Students
1st	Penelope ISD	Hill	A	+14.0	78	92	215
2nd	Jonesboro ISD	Coryell	C	+12.0	67	79	317
3rd tied	Cranfills Gap ISD	Bosque	B	+10.0	78	88	116
3rd tied	Moody ISD	McLennan	B	+10.0	78	88	761
5th	Blum ISD	Hill	A	+8.0	82	90	335
6th tied	Gholson ISD	McLennan	B	+7.0	82	89	227
6th tied	Hillsboro ISD	Hill	B	+7.0	82	89	1,913
6th tied	Kopperl ISD	Bosque	D	+7.0	55	62	163
6th tied	Rosebud-Lott ISD	Falls	B	+7.0	76	83	763
6th tied	Temple ISD	Bell	B	+7.0	74	81	8,704
11th tied	Connally ISD	McLennan	D	+6.0	63	69	2,031
11th tied	Copperas Cove ISD	Coryell	B	+6.0	79	85	7,619
11th tied	Iredell ISD	Bosque	A	+6.0	87	93	137
11th tied	Meridian ISD	Bosque	C	+6.0	65	71	354
11th tied	Oglesby ISD	Coryell	B	+6.0	81	87	257
11th tied	Priddy ISD	Mills	A	+6.0	85	91	90
17th tied	Crawford ISD	McLennan	B	+5.0	83	88	585
17th tied	Evant ISD	Coryell	D	+5.0	64	69	192
17th tied	Killeen ISD	Bell	C	+5.0	74	79	41,366
17th tied	Mildred ISD	Navarro	B	+5.0	81	86	801
17th tied	Mount Calm ISD	Hill	C	+5.0	74	79	176
17th tied	Robinson ISD	McLennan	A	+5.0	85	90	2,401

The full list: all 76 districts

Region 12: Waco school districts with the largest overall score gains since 2021-22: all 76 rows
Rank	District	County	Largest gain in overall score	2021-22 "What If"	2025-26
1st	Penelope ISD	Hill	+14.0	78	92
2nd	Jonesboro ISD	Coryell	+12.0	67	79
3rd tied	Cranfills Gap ISD	Bosque	+10.0	78	88
3rd tied	Moody ISD	McLennan	+10.0	78	88
5th	Blum ISD	Hill	+8.0	82	90
6th tied	Gholson ISD	McLennan	+7.0	82	89
6th tied	Hillsboro ISD	Hill	+7.0	82	89
6th tied	Kopperl ISD	Bosque	+7.0	55	62
6th tied	Rosebud-Lott ISD	Falls	+7.0	76	83
6th tied	Temple ISD	Bell	+7.0	74	81
11th tied	Connally ISD	McLennan	+6.0	63	69
11th tied	Copperas Cove ISD	Coryell	+6.0	79	85
11th tied	Iredell ISD	Bosque	+6.0	87	93
11th tied	Meridian ISD	Bosque	+6.0	65	71
11th tied	Oglesby ISD	Coryell	+6.0	81	87
11th tied	Priddy ISD	Mills	+6.0	85	91
17th tied	Crawford ISD	McLennan	+5.0	83	88
17th tied	Evant ISD	Coryell	+5.0	64	69
17th tied	Killeen ISD	Bell	+5.0	74	79
17th tied	Mildred ISD	Navarro	+5.0	81	86
17th tied	Mount Calm ISD	Hill	+5.0	74	79
17th tied	Robinson ISD	McLennan	+5.0	85	90
23rd tied	Aquilla ISD	Hill	+4.0	85	89
23rd tied	Clifton ISD	Bosque	+4.0	77	81
23rd tied	West ISD	McLennan	+4.0	85	89
26th tied	Academy ISD	Bell	+3.0	80	83
26th tied	Axtell ISD	McLennan	+3.0	83	86
26th tied	Frost ISD	Navarro	+3.0	73	76
26th tied	Gatesville ISD	Coryell	+3.0	75	78
26th tied	Itasca ISD	Hill	+3.0	69	72
31st tied	Belton ISD	Bell	+2.0	78	80
31st tied	Goldthwaite ISD	Mills	+2.0	87	89
31st tied	Hico ISD	Hamilton	+2.0	78	80
31st tied	Holland ISD	Bell	+2.0	88	90
31st tied	Hubbard ISD	Hill	+2.0	75	77
31st tied	Mexia ISD	Limestone	+2.0	74	76
31st tied	Troy ISD	Bell	+2.0	81	83
31st tied	Whitney ISD	Hill	+2.0	76	78
31st tied	Wortham ISD	Freestone	+2.0	70	72
40th tied	Buckholts ISD	Milam	+1.0	74	75
40th tied	Chilton ISD	Falls	+1.0	90	91
40th tied	Dawson ISD	Navarro	+1.0	81	82
40th tied	Kerens ISD	Navarro	+1.0	84	85
40th tied	Mart ISD	McLennan	+1.0	82	83
40th tied	Salado ISD	Bell	+1.0	81	82
40th tied	Teague ISD	Freestone	+1.0	86	87
47th tied	Lampasas ISD	Lampasas	±0.0	84	84
47th tied	Midway ISD	McLennan	±0.0	90	90
47th tied	Rogers ISD	Bell	±0.0	81	81
47th tied	Westphalia ISD	Falls	±0.0	92	92
51st tied	Abbott ISD	Hill	−1.0	95	94
51st tied	China Spring ISD	McLennan	−1.0	89	88
51st tied	Lorena ISD	McLennan	−1.0	92	91
51st tied	Riesel ISD	McLennan	−1.0	90	89
55th tied	Corsicana ISD	Navarro	−2.0	75	73
55th tied	Lometa ISD	Lampasas	−2.0	82	80
55th tied	Rice ISD	Navarro	−2.0	89	87
58th tied	Fairfield ISD	Freestone	−3.0	82	79
58th tied	McGregor ISD	McLennan	−3.0	80	77
58th tied	Morgan ISD	Bosque	−3.0	73	70
58th tied	Waco ISD	McLennan	−3.0	69	66
62nd	Walnut Springs ISD	Bosque	−4.0	75	71
63rd tied	Bruceville-Eddy ISD	McLennan	−5.0	75	70
63rd tied	Groesbeck ISD	Limestone	−5.0	81	76
63rd tied	Valley Mills ISD	Bosque	−5.0	82	77
66th tied	Coolidge ISD	Limestone	−6.0	90	84
66th tied	La Vega ISD	McLennan	−6.0	78	72
68th tied	Dew ISD	Freestone	−7.0	83	76
68th tied	Hamilton ISD	Hamilton	−7.0	85	78
68th tied	Marlin ISD	Falls	−7.0	73	66
71st	Bynum ISD	Hill	−9.0	95	86
72nd	Bosqueville ISD	McLennan	−10.0	86	76
73rd	Covington ISD	Hill	−14.0	86	72
74th	Mullin ISD	Mills	−19.0	90	71
75th	Hallsburg ISD	McLennan	−23.0	82	59
76th	Malone ISD	Hill	−27.0	71	44

The other end, and the other lists

The other end of this list: Region 12: Waco school districts with the largest overall score declines. Both ends are published, because a site that prints only the flattering half of an ordering is advertising.

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Where this comes from

Every figure in this table comes from data the Texas Education Agency publishes at txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA publishes the ratings; it does not publish this ordering. This site is unofficial and is not affiliated with TEA. How this site works records the snapshot this page was built from and what this site does and does not verify about it.

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