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Texas school districts with the highest Reading — Approaches in 2025-26
1,019 districts · in 2025-26 · TEA data fetched 15 August 2026
Reading — Approaches, as TEA published it in 2025-26. Measured across Texas school districts, of which 1,019 districts are ranked below.
What this ranking counts
1,019 districts of 1,020 districts are ranked here.
1 was not rated by TEA for 2025-26 and is not ranked.
Ordered from the highest figure downward.
1,016 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: 6 districts share 17th place, and cutting a tie in half is how a ranked list stops being true. The full list follows.
| Rank | District | County | Rating | Reading — Approaches | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st tied | Doss Consolidated CSD | Gillespie | B | 100.0% | 18 |
| 1st tied | Palo Pinto ISD | Palo Pinto | A | 100.0% | 92 |
| 3rd tied | Blackwell CISD | Nolan | A | 99.0% | 171 |
| 3rd tied | Nazareth ISD | Castro | A | 99.0% | 239 |
| 5th tied | Grady ISD | Martin | A | 98.0% | 242 |
| 5th tied | Highland Park ISD | Dallas | A | 98.0% | 6,215 |
| 5th tied | Hunt ISD | Kerr | A | 98.0% | 211 |
| 5th tied | Mumford ISD | Robertson | A | 98.0% | 600 |
| 9th tied | Devers ISD | Liberty | A | 97.0% | 198 |
| 9th tied | Gruver ISD | Hansford | A | 97.0% | 419 |
| 9th tied | Highland ISD | Nolan | A | 97.0% | 211 |
| 9th tied | Klondike ISD | Dawson | A | 97.0% | 269 |
| 9th tied | Lovejoy ISD | Collin | A | 97.0% | 3,841 |
| 9th tied | McMullen County ISD | McMullen | A | 97.0% | 286 |
| 9th tied | Westphalia ISD | Falls | A | 97.0% | 148 |
| 9th tied | Whitharral ISD | Hockley | A | 97.0% | 223 |
| 17th tied | Carroll ISD | Tarrant | A | 96.0% | 7,866 |
| 17th tied | Eanes ISD | Travis | A | 96.0% | 7,524 |
| 17th tied | Randolph Field ISD | Bexar | A | 96.0% | 1,402 |
| 17th tied | Red Lick ISD | Bowie | A | 96.0% | 515 |
| 17th tied | Texas Tech University K-12 | Lubbock | B | 96.0% | 829 |
| 17th tied | Walnut Bend ISD | Cooke | C | 96.0% | 59 |
The full list: all 1,019 districts
The other end, and the other lists
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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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