School performance

STAAR performance rates for all grades combined were obtained from the Texas Education Agency website.

This analysis only considers math and reading outcomes. The values describe the proportion of students at a particular performance level. There are three performance levels in the STAAR data.

Student performance on STAAR is separated into four performance categories — Masters Grade Level, Meets Grade Level, Approaches Grade Level, and Did Not Meet Grade Level. Students who achieve Approaches Grade Level or higher on STAAR have passed the test. Students who achieve Did Not Meet Grade Level on STAAR have not passed the test.

Visit the Texas Education Agency’s STAAR Performance Standards website to learn more about performance level categories.

Summary

STAAR year: 2022

Performance levels:

  • Approaches grade level: proportion of students who passed the test
  • Meets grade level: proportion of students at or above grade level
  • Masters grade level: proportion of students above grade level

School pairings

School pairings AKA feeder patterns describe how elementary, middle, and high schools are zoned. For example, school pairings define which middle school graduating elementary school children attend. The pairings were created using 2025 feeding patterns.

School districts in this report:

School Districts
Allen ISD
Coppell ISD
Dallas ISD
Frisco ISD
Highland Park ISD
Plano ISD
Prosper ISD


School districts in progress:

  • Richardson ISD

FAQs:

  1. How come some schools aren’t present in the rankings?
    • There is likely a mismatch between the schools listed in the STAAR report and the current school mappings; for example, some schools may have been built after the latest STAAR data and some schools may have been rezoned since the STAAR report year.

Ranking calculation

Ranks were creating by combining math and reading outcomes using the geometric mean.

The geometric mean penalizes differences in performance between math and reading, while the simple average does not.

For example, let’s say we want to compare two schools. The schools appear equal if math and reading performance are combined using the simple average, while the geometric mean penalizes the large discrepancy between math and reading performance for school A.

School Math Reading Average Geometric Mean
A 90 10 \(\frac{90+10}{2}=50\) \((90 * 10)^{(\frac{1}{2})}=30\)
B 50 50 \(\frac{50+50}{2}=50\) \((50 * 50)^{(\frac{1}{2})}=50\)