Ranked list · Region 16: Amarillo school districts

Region 16: Amarillo school districts with the largest overall score gains since 2021-22

59 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 16: Amarillo school districts, of which 59 districts are ranked below.

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What this ranking counts

59 districts of 60 districts are ranked here.

1 was not rated by TEA for 2025-26 and is not ranked.

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

50 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: 3 districts share 20th place, and cutting a tie in half is how a ranked list stops being true. The full list follows.

Region 16: Amarillo school districts with the largest overall score gains since 2021-22: the leading 22 of 59 districts
Rank	District	County	Rating	Largest gain in overall score	2021-22 "What If"	2025-26	Students
1st	Claude ISD	Armstrong	A	+17.0	79	96	311
2nd	Kress ISD	Swisher	B	+14.0	69	83	278
3rd tied	Tulia ISD	Swisher	C	+10.0	61	71	730
3rd tied	Wildorado ISD	Oldham	A	+10.0	83	93	198
5th tied	Lazbuddie ISD	Parmer	A	+9.0	81	90	127
5th tied	Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips CISD	Hutchinson	A	+9.0	82	91	529
7th tied	Memphis ISD	Hall	B	+8.0	77	85	331
7th tied	Sanford-Fritch ISD	Hutchinson	C	+8.0	71	79	714
7th tied	Stratford ISD	Sherman	B	+8.0	80	88	487
7th tied	Texline ISD	Dallam	A	+8.0	85	93	224
11th	Texhoma ISD	Sherman	A	+7.0	86	93	96
12th tied	Wellington ISD	Collingsworth	B	+6.0	83	89	516
12th tied	White Deer ISD	Carson	B	+6.0	80	86	302
14th tied	Amarillo ISD	Potter	B	+5.0	80	85	28,172
14th tied	Farwell ISD	Parmer	B	+5.0	84	89	570
14th tied	Kelton ISD	Wheeler	B	+5.0	77	82	129
14th tied	Pampa ISD	Gray	C	+5.0	71	76	3,036
14th tied	River Road ISD	Potter	B	+5.0	75	80	1,183
19th	Dumas ISD	Moore	B	+4.0	81	85	4,232
20th tied	Hart ISD	Castro	B	+3.0	78	81	208
20th tied	Shamrock ISD	Wheeler	C	+3.0	75	78	350
20th tied	Sunray Collegiate ISD	Moore	B	+3.0	82	85	548

The full list: all 59 districts

Region 16: Amarillo school districts with the largest overall score gains since 2021-22: all 59 rows
Rank	District	County	Largest gain in overall score	2021-22 "What If"	2025-26
1st	Claude ISD	Armstrong	+17.0	79	96
2nd	Kress ISD	Swisher	+14.0	69	83
3rd tied	Tulia ISD	Swisher	+10.0	61	71
3rd tied	Wildorado ISD	Oldham	+10.0	83	93
5th tied	Lazbuddie ISD	Parmer	+9.0	81	90
5th tied	Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips CISD	Hutchinson	+9.0	82	91
7th tied	Memphis ISD	Hall	+8.0	77	85
7th tied	Sanford-Fritch ISD	Hutchinson	+8.0	71	79
7th tied	Stratford ISD	Sherman	+8.0	80	88
7th tied	Texline ISD	Dallam	+8.0	85	93
11th	Texhoma ISD	Sherman	+7.0	86	93
12th tied	Wellington ISD	Collingsworth	+6.0	83	89
12th tied	White Deer ISD	Carson	+6.0	80	86
14th tied	Amarillo ISD	Potter	+5.0	80	85
14th tied	Farwell ISD	Parmer	+5.0	84	89
14th tied	Kelton ISD	Wheeler	+5.0	77	82
14th tied	Pampa ISD	Gray	+5.0	71	76
14th tied	River Road ISD	Potter	+5.0	75	80
19th	Dumas ISD	Moore	+4.0	81	85
20th tied	Hart ISD	Castro	+3.0	78	81
20th tied	Shamrock ISD	Wheeler	+3.0	75	78
20th tied	Sunray Collegiate ISD	Moore	+3.0	82	85
23rd tied	Borger ISD	Hutchinson	+2.0	76	78
23rd tied	Channing ISD	Hartley	+2.0	80	82
23rd tied	Dimmitt ISD	Castro	+2.0	75	77
23rd tied	Hereford ISD	Deaf Smith	+2.0	69	71
23rd tied	Miami ISD	Roberts	+2.0	91	93
23rd tied	Silverton ISD	Briscoe	+2.0	91	93
23rd tied	Wheeler ISD	Wheeler	+2.0	86	88
30th tied	Adrian ISD	Oldham	+1.0	89	90
30th tied	Canadian ISD	Hemphill	+1.0	92	93
30th tied	Fort Elliott CISD	Wheeler	+1.0	86	87
30th tied	Happy ISD	Swisher	+1.0	89	90
30th tied	Lefors ISD	Gray	+1.0	69	70
30th tied	Panhandle ISD	Carson	+1.0	89	90
30th tied	Turkey-Quitaque ISD	Hall	+1.0	94	95
37th tied	Childress ISD	Childress	±0.0	81	81
37th tied	Gruver ISD	Hansford	±0.0	94	94
39th tied	Bushland ISD	Potter	−1.0	90	89
39th tied	Canyon ISD	Randall	−1.0	88	87
39th tied	Clarendon ISD	Donley	−1.0	80	79
39th tied	Dalhart ISD	Dallam	−1.0	74	73
39th tied	Hartley ISD	Hartley	−1.0	95	94
44th	Nazareth ISD	Castro	−2.0	97	95
45th tied	Hedley ISD	Donley	−3.0	92	89
45th tied	Highland Park ISD	Potter	−3.0	84	81
45th tied	McLean ISD	Gray	−3.0	90	87
45th tied	Vega ISD	Oldham	−3.0	93	90
49th	Perryton ISD	Ochiltree	−4.0	86	82
50th tied	Booker ISD	Lipscomb	−5.0	87	82
50th tied	Follett ISD	Lipscomb	−5.0	77	72
50th tied	Spearman ISD	Hansford	−5.0	92	87
53rd	Darrouzett ISD	Lipscomb	−6.0	73	67
54th tied	Friona ISD	Parmer	−7.0	80	73
54th tied	Grandview-Hopkins ISD	Gray	−7.0	77	70
56th	Groom ISD	Carson	−8.0	89	81
57th	Walcott ISD	Deaf Smith	−13.0	93	80
58th tied	Bovina ISD	Parmer	−17.0	86	69
58th tied	Pringle-Morse CISD	Hansford	−17.0	90	73

The other end, and the other lists

The other end of this list: Region 16: Amarillo 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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