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Texas school districts with the highest Social Studies — Approaches in 2025-26
1,006 districts · in 2025-26 · TEA data fetched 15 August 2026
Social Studies — Approaches, as TEA published it in 2025-26. Measured across Texas school districts, of which 1,006 districts are ranked below.
What this ranking counts
1,006 districts of 1,020 districts are ranked here.
1 was not rated by TEA for 2025-26 and is not ranked.
13 reported no figure for this measure and are not ranked.
Ordered from the highest figure downward.
999 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: 4 districts share 19th place, and cutting a tie in half is how a ranked list stops being true. The full list follows.
| Rank | District | County | Rating | Social Studies — Approaches | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st tied | Darrouzett ISD | Lipscomb | D | 100.0% | 97 |
| 1st tied | Devers ISD | Liberty | A | 100.0% | 198 |
| 1st tied | Iredell ISD | Bosque | A | 100.0% | 137 |
| 1st tied | Westhoff ISD | Dewitt | B | 100.0% | 100 |
| 5th tied | Falls City ISD | Karnes | A | 98.0% | 452 |
| 5th tied | Randolph Field ISD | Bexar | A | 98.0% | 1,402 |
| 5th tied | Santa Gertrudis ISD | Kleberg | A | 98.0% | 813 |
| 8th tied | Highland ISD | Nolan | A | 97.0% | 211 |
| 8th tied | University of Texas at Austin HS | Travis | C | 97.0% | 1,211 |
| 10th tied | Aspermont ISD | Stonewall | A | 96.0% | 210 |
| 10th tied | Vega ISD | Oldham | A | 96.0% | 354 |
| 12th tied | Carroll ISD | Tarrant | A | 95.0% | 7,866 |
| 12th tied | Central Heights ISD | Nacogdoches | A | 95.0% | 1,106 |
| 12th tied | Eanes ISD | Travis | A | 95.0% | 7,524 |
| 12th tied | Flatonia ISD | Fayette | A | 95.0% | 675 |
| 12th tied | Highland Park ISD | Dallas | A | 95.0% | 6,215 |
| 12th tied | Irion County ISD | Irion | A | 95.0% | 307 |
| 12th tied | Lovejoy ISD | Collin | A | 95.0% | 3,841 |
| 19th tied | Avery ISD | Red River | A | 94.0% | 295 |
| 19th tied | Borden County ISD | Borden | A | 94.0% | 238 |
| 19th tied | Klondike ISD | Dawson | A | 94.0% | 269 |
| 19th tied | Rochelle ISD | McCulloch | A | 94.0% | 166 |
The full list: all 1,006 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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