Ranked list · Region 13: Austin school districts
Region 13: Austin school districts with the largest overall score gains since 2021-22
50 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 13: Austin school districts, of which 50 districts are ranked below.
What this ranking counts
50 districts of 50 districts are ranked here.
Ordered by the largest rise first. A negative figure is a decline.
47 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 20
Ranked 1st to 19th. The full list follows.
| Rank | District | County | Rating | Largest gain in overall score | 2021-22 "What If" | 2025-26 | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st tied | Florence ISD | Williamson | B | +16.0 | 69 | 85 | 1,125 |
| 1st tied | Fredericksburg ISD | Gillespie | B | +16.0 | 73 | 89 | 2,956 |
| 1st tied | Taylor ISD | Williamson | B | +16.0 | 64 | 80 | 2,882 |
| 4th tied | Dime Box ISD | Lee | B | +14.0 | 69 | 83 | 169 |
| 4th tied | Waelder ISD | Gonzales | B | +14.0 | 70 | 84 | 588 |
| 6th tied | Gonzales ISD | Gonzales | C | +10.0 | 66 | 76 | 2,514 |
| 6th tied | Lockhart ISD | Caldwell | C | +10.0 | 69 | 79 | 6,757 |
| 6th tied | San Marcos CISD | Hays | C | +10.0 | 66 | 76 | 8,134 |
| 9th tied | Georgetown ISD | Williamson | B | +8.0 | 72 | 80 | 13,951 |
| 9th tied | Smithville ISD | Bastrop | C | +8.0 | 71 | 79 | 1,864 |
| 9th tied | Thorndale ISD | Milam | B | +8.0 | 76 | 84 | 662 |
| 12th tied | La Grange ISD | Fayette | B | +6.0 | 77 | 83 | 1,839 |
| 12th tied | Liberty Hill ISD | Williamson | B | +6.0 | 79 | 85 | 10,446 |
| 14th tied | Jarrell ISD | Williamson | C | +5.0 | 69 | 74 | 4,514 |
| 14th tied | Lake Travis ISD | Travis | A | +5.0 | 86 | 91 | 10,748 |
| 14th tied | Thrall ISD | Williamson | A | +5.0 | 88 | 93 | 916 |
| 14th tied | Wimberley ISD | Hays | B | +5.0 | 82 | 87 | 2,633 |
| 18th | Pflugerville ISD | Travis | B | +4.0 | 77 | 81 | 25,028 |
| 19th tied | Bastrop ISD | Bastrop | C | +3.0 | 69 | 72 | 13,325 |
| 19th tied | Fayetteville ISD | Fayette | A | +3.0 | 94 | 97 | 308 |
The full list: all 50 districts
The other end, and the other lists
The other end of this list: Region 13: Austin 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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