Ranked list · Texas school districts
Texas school districts with the largest Academic Growth gains since 2023-24
1,017 districts · page 1 of 3 · since 2023-24 · TEA data fetched 15 August 2026
The change in Academic Growth since 2023-24, from the figure TEA published for 2023-24 to the figure it published for 2025-26. Measured across Texas school districts, of which 1,017 districts are ranked below.
What this ranking counts
1,017 districts of 1,020 districts are ranked here.
1 was not rated by TEA for 2025-26 and is not ranked.
2 have no figure at the start of the window and are not ranked.
Ordered by the largest rise first. A negative figure is a decline.
1,009 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. This list does not: it orders by the raw figure alone. How the peer group is chosen.
The top 22
22 rows, not 20: 8 districts share 15th place. The full list follows.
| Rank | District | County | Rating | Largest gain in Academic Growth | 2023-24 | 2025-26 | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Leary ISD | Bowie | A | +39.0 | 53 | 92 | 106 |
| 2nd | Southland ISD | Garza | B | +29.0 | 59 | 88 | 145 |
| 3rd | Rising Star ISD | Eastland | B | +28.0 | 54 | 82 | 160 |
| 4th | Ezzell ISD | Lavaca | B | +27.0 | 58 | 85 | 124 |
| 5th tied | Miller Grove ISD | Hopkins | B | +26.0 | 57 | 83 | 314 |
| 5th tied | Wildorado ISD | Oldham | A | +26.0 | 58 | 84 | 198 |
| 7th tied | Garner ISD | Parker | B | +24.0 | 57 | 81 | 353 |
| 7th tied | Karnes City ISD | Karnes | B | +24.0 | 58 | 82 | 929 |
| 7th tied | Lueders-Avoca ISD | Jones | D | +24.0 | 57 | 81 | 103 |
| 10th tied | Blackwell CISD | Nolan | A | +23.0 | 64 | 87 | 171 |
| 10th tied | Refugio ISD | Refugio | B | +23.0 | 60 | 83 | 593 |
| 10th tied | Zavalla ISD | Angelina | B | +23.0 | 55 | 78 | 309 |
| 13th tied | Harrold ISD | Wilbarger | B | +22.0 | 60 | 82 | 159 |
| 13th tied | Valentine ISD | Jeff Davis | B | +22.0 | 64 | 86 | 28 |
| 15th tied | Blanket ISD | Brown | B | +21.0 | 56 | 77 | 151 |
| 15th tied | Grandfalls-Royalty ISD | Ward | C | +21.0 | 53 | 74 | 121 |
| 15th tied | Lazbuddie ISD | Parmer | A | +21.0 | 51 | 72 | 127 |
| 15th tied | Lohn ISD | McCulloch | B | +21.0 | 64 | 85 | 109 |
| 15th tied | Matagorda ISD | Matagorda | C | +21.0 | 54 | 75 | 118 |
| 15th tied | Patton Springs ISD | Dickens | A | +21.0 | 79 | 100 | 22 |
| 15th tied | Quinlan ISD | Hunt | C | +21.0 | 58 | 79 | 2,979 |
| 15th tied | Shelbyville ISD | Shelby | B | +21.0 | 59 | 80 | 864 |
The full list: rows 1–500 of 1,017
Page 1 of 3, rows 1–500 of 1,017. The ordering continues on the next 2 pages; every row of it is also in this table's CSV.
What this list leaves out, and the other lists
This site does not publish the other end of this ordering. This page shows the better-performing end of Academic Growth; there is no matching list of the districts doing worst on it. Every district's own page shows its figure for this measure.
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Where this comes from
The ranked measure and accountability context come from data the Texas Education Agency publishes at txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. Enrollment shown as context comes from TEA's separate PEIMS Student Program reports. 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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