Ranked list · Region 12: Waco school districts
Region 12: Waco school districts with the highest overall score in 2025-26
77 districts · in 2025-26 · TEA data fetched 15 August 2026
Overall score, as TEA published it in 2025-26. Measured across Region 12: Waco school districts, of which 77 districts are ranked below.
What this ranking counts
77 districts of 77 districts are ranked here.
Ordered from the highest figure downward.
70 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 21
21 rows, not 20: 4 districts share 18th place, and cutting a tie in half is how a ranked list stops being true. The full list follows.
| Rank | District | County | Rating | Overall score | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Abbott ISD | Hill | A | 94 | 285 |
| 2nd | Iredell ISD | Bosque | A | 93 | 137 |
| 3rd tied | Penelope ISD | Hill | A | 92 | 215 |
| 3rd tied | Westphalia ISD | Falls | A | 92 | 148 |
| 5th tied | Chilton ISD | Falls | A | 91 | 574 |
| 5th tied | Lorena ISD | McLennan | A | 91 | 1,740 |
| 5th tied | Priddy ISD | Mills | A | 91 | 90 |
| 8th tied | Blum ISD | Hill | A | 90 | 335 |
| 8th tied | Holland ISD | Bell | A | 90 | 669 |
| 8th tied | Midway ISD | McLennan | A | 90 | 8,704 |
| 8th tied | Robinson ISD | McLennan | A | 90 | 2,401 |
| 12th tied | Aquilla ISD | Hill | B | 89 | 322 |
| 12th tied | Gholson ISD | McLennan | B | 89 | 227 |
| 12th tied | Goldthwaite ISD | Mills | B | 89 | 504 |
| 12th tied | Hillsboro ISD | Hill | B | 89 | 1,913 |
| 12th tied | Riesel ISD | McLennan | B | 89 | 683 |
| 12th tied | West ISD | McLennan | B | 89 | 1,338 |
| 18th tied | China Spring ISD | McLennan | B | 88 | 2,980 |
| 18th tied | Cranfills Gap ISD | Bosque | B | 88 | 116 |
| 18th tied | Crawford ISD | McLennan | B | 88 | 585 |
| 18th tied | Moody ISD | McLennan | B | 88 | 761 |
The full list: all 77 districts
The other end, and the other lists
The other end of this list: Region 12: Waco school districts with the lowest overall score. 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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