Ranked list · Texas school districts
Texas school districts with the largest Closing the Gaps gains since 2023-24
1,012 districts · page 1 of 3 · since 2023-24 · TEA data fetched 15 August 2026
The change in Closing the Gaps 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 1,012 districts are ranked below.
What this ranking counts
1,012 districts of 1,020 districts are ranked here.
1 was not rated by TEA for 2025-26 and is not ranked.
5 have no figure at the start of the window and are not ranked.
2 have no figure at the end of the window and are not ranked.
Ordered by the largest rise first. A negative figure is a decline.
997 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 21
21 rows, not 20: 5 districts share 17th place. The full list follows.
| Rank | District | County | Rating | Largest gain in Closing the Gaps | 2023-24 | 2025-26 | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Waelder ISD | Gonzales | B | +42.0 | 45 | 87 | 591 |
| 2nd | Fort Stockton ISD | Pecos | C | +40.0 | 40 | 80 | 11,710 |
| 3rd | Blanket ISD | Brown | B | +39.0 | 49 | 88 | 151 |
| 4th | Dime Box ISD | Lee | B | +37.0 | 45 | 82 | 170 |
| 5th | Garner ISD | Parker | B | +35.0 | 55 | 90 | 353 |
| 6th tied | Blum ISD | Hill | A | +33.0 | 57 | 90 | 335 |
| 6th tied | Gholson ISD | McLennan | B | +33.0 | 57 | 90 | 228 |
| 8th | Bartlett ISD | Bell | C | +32.0 | 46 | 78 | 405 |
| 9th | Roscoe Collegiate ISD | Nolan | F | +30.0 | 35 | 65 | 14,906 |
| 10th | Pawnee ISD | Bee | C | +29.0 | 55 | 84 | 252 |
| 11th tied | Lefors ISD | Gray | C | +26.0 | 45 | 71 | 177 |
| 11th tied | Texas Tech University K-12 | Lubbock | B | +26.0 | 64 | 90 | 829 |
| 11th tied | Zephyr ISD | Brown | B | +26.0 | 52 | 78 | 217 |
| 14th tied | Baird ISD | Callahan | B | +24.0 | 56 | 80 | 348 |
| 14th tied | Blackwell CISD | Nolan | A | +24.0 | 73 | 97 | 171 |
| 14th tied | Liberty ISD | Liberty | C | +24.0 | 53 | 77 | 2,411 |
| 17th tied | Buna ISD | Jasper | C | +23.0 | 57 | 80 | 1,421 |
| 17th tied | Dell City ISD | Hudspeth | B | +23.0 | 43 | 66 | 76 |
| 17th tied | Florence ISD | Williamson | B | +23.0 | 63 | 86 | 1,125 |
| 17th tied | Priddy ISD | Mills | A | +23.0 | 70 | 93 | 90 |
| 17th tied | Woodson ISD | Throckmorton | B | +23.0 | 67 | 90 | 160 |
The full list: rows 1–500 of 1,012
Page 1 of 3, rows 1–500 of 1,012. 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 Closing the Gaps; 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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