GCISD officials say newly released TEA ratings confirm gains while district rating held steady
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Grapevine-Colleyville ISD leaders told trustees that two years of curriculum and assessment changes produced measurable gains in student outcomes, but a change in how the state weights high-school results kept the district'wide letter rating largely the same.
Grapevine-Colleyville, TX ' The Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District presented state accountability results for 2024 and 2025 at its Aug. 25 board meeting, emphasizing significant campus-level gains while explaining why the district'wide letter rating stayed essentially unchanged.
District academic leader Dr. Shiver, who presented the official Texas Education Agency data, said, “This year, we saw an 89% increase in the number of students reclassified from emergent bilingual to English proficient.” He added that “our advanced placement pass rate reached 82.6 percent for students earning a score of 3 or higher,” both historic highs for the district.
The presentation explained that TEA's 2023 accountability redesign and a proportional method the agency now uses to calculate a district'wide score give heavier weight to secondary campuses. The district noted that Colleyville Heritage High School, Grapevine High School and iUniversity Prep together account for about 45% of the overall district rating; high schools also include a College, Career, and Military Readiness (CCMR) component that is lagged by one year. Miss Tovar, a district presenter, explained that student-level data used for 2025 ratings were already in use by staff since June 2024 and June 2025 and that the district's scorecard and campus improvement plans will be updated accordingly.
Board members and administrators highlighted where gains were recorded: several elementary campuses improved one or two letter grades, and districtwide domain scores for student achievement, growth and closing gaps showed cumulative increases. Dr. Shiver and Miss Tovar said much of the improvement appears concentrated in elementary grades and among specific student groups, which helps explain the discrepancy between campus gains and the unchanged district rating.
Trustees asked for and received commitments to present campus improvement plans and more-targeted intervention strategies in September. The district said it will continue department-level scorecards and cross-campus monitoring to ensure growth remains sustained and that the improvements feed into secondary outcomes in coming years.
The board did not take a formal vote on ratings at the meeting; the presentation used TEA's official 2024 and 2025 releases as the primary source of the figures.
Looking ahead, the district said it will refine campus plans and monitoring processes, finalize department cascading scorecards, and report back to trustees in September with improvement plans and identified root causes for campuses that still lag.