Ranked list · Texas school districts
Texas school districts with the lowest average teacher salary in 2025-26
1,018 districts · in 2025-26 · TEA data fetched 15 August 2026
Average teacher salary, as TEA published it in 2025-26. Measured across Texas school districts, of which 1,018 districts are ranked below.
What this ranking counts
1,018 districts of 1,020 districts are ranked here.
1 was not rated by TEA for 2025-26 and is not ranked.
1 reported no figure for this measure and is not ranked.
Ordered from the lowest figure upward.
62 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 20th. The full list follows.
| Rank | District | County | Rating | Average teacher salary | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Taft ISD | San Patricio | C | $43,313 | 786 |
| 2nd | Texhoma ISD | Sherman | A | $48,192 | 96 |
| 3rd | Ranger ISD | Eastland | D | $48,441 | 262 |
| 4th | Amherst ISD | Lamb | B | $48,974 | 102 |
| 5th | Hedley ISD | Donley | B | $49,349 | 85 |
| 6th | Southland ISD | Garza | B | $49,488 | 145 |
| 7th | Gorman ISD | Eastland | C | $50,421 | 210 |
| 8th | Anton ISD | Hockley | C | $50,664 | 171 |
| 9th | Crosbyton CISD | Crosby | C | $51,039 | 293 |
| 10th | Clarendon ISD | Donley | C | $51,235 | 403 |
| 11th | Hubbard ISD | Bowie | F | $51,410 | 54 |
| 12th | Morgan ISD | Bosque | C | $51,645 | 138 |
| 13th | Morgan Mill ISD | Erath | F | $51,687 | 132 |
| 14th | Pringle-Morse CISD | Hansford | C | $52,020 | 126 |
| 15th | Karnack ISD | Harrison | D | $52,099 | 121 |
| 16th | Austwell-Tivoli ISD | Refugio | C | $52,214 | 122 |
| 17th | Littlefield ISD | Lamb | B | $52,759 | 1,185 |
| 18th | Hartley ISD | Hartley | A | $52,827 | 242 |
| 19th | Bangs ISD | Brown | B | $52,996 | 768 |
| 20th | Leary ISD | Bowie | A | $53,006 | 106 |
The full list: all 1,018 districts
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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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