Ranked list · Texas school districts
Texas school districts with the largest overall score gains since 2021-22
1,017 districts · page 1 of 3 · 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 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.
1,003 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: 6 districts share 17th place. The full list follows.
| Rank | District | County | Rating | Largest gain in overall score | 2021-22 "What If" | 2025-26 | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st tied | Dawson ISD | Dawson | B | +30.0 | 51 | 81 | 145 |
| 1st tied | Lohn ISD | McCulloch | B | +30.0 | 56 | 86 | 109 |
| 3rd | Bellevue ISD | Clay | A | +28.0 | 64 | 92 | 243 |
| 4th | Grandfalls-Royalty ISD | Ward | C | +23.0 | 52 | 75 | 121 |
| 5th tied | Blanket ISD | Brown | B | +22.0 | 59 | 81 | 151 |
| 5th tied | Knox City-O'Brien CISD | Knox | A | +22.0 | 73 | 95 | 183 |
| 7th tied | Cherokee ISD | San Saba | B | +20.0 | 69 | 89 | 128 |
| 7th tied | Southland ISD | Garza | B | +20.0 | 65 | 85 | 145 |
| 9th | Goodrich ISD | Polk | B | +19.0 | 67 | 86 | 270 |
| 10th tied | Bluff Dale ISD | Erath | B | +18.0 | 69 | 87 | 228 |
| 10th tied | Hempstead ISD | Waller | C | +18.0 | 59 | 77 | 1,568 |
| 12th tied | Alice ISD | Jim Wells | B | +17.0 | 69 | 86 | 4,213 |
| 12th tied | Claude ISD | Armstrong | A | +17.0 | 79 | 96 | 312 |
| 12th tied | D'Hanis ISD | Medina | A | +17.0 | 76 | 93 | 297 |
| 12th tied | Douglass ISD | Nacogdoches | A | +17.0 | 79 | 96 | 407 |
| 12th tied | Veribest ISD | Tom Green | B | +17.0 | 72 | 89 | 258 |
| 17th tied | Florence ISD | Williamson | B | +16.0 | 69 | 85 | 1,125 |
| 17th tied | Fredericksburg ISD | Gillespie | B | +16.0 | 73 | 89 | 2,971 |
| 17th tied | Henderson ISD | Rusk | B | +16.0 | 64 | 80 | 3,165 |
| 17th tied | Taylor ISD | Williamson | B | +16.0 | 64 | 80 | 2,904 |
| 17th tied | Three Way ISD | Erath | C | +16.0 | 59 | 75 | 224 |
| 17th tied | Trent ISD | Taylor | B | +16.0 | 65 | 81 | 119 |
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 overall score; 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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