Lake Travis ISD staff presented the district’s spring 2025 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) results and highlighted growth in multiple grades and end-of-course (EOC) exams.

Cathy Burbank told trustees that families received student reports in early June through the Skyward portal and that the presentation used public data from the Texas portal. “This data is all our students,” Burbank said, noting the presentation did not remove students who were not enrolled on the last Friday in October. She explained the performance-level labels—Mastery, Meets, Approaches, and Did Not Meet—and stressed that the district focuses intervention on Did Not Meet students.

Burbank described district-wide work on writing and said a districtwide protocol (TDEC: Topic and Thesis; Detail; Elaboration; Commentary) and staff training correlated with growth in sixth grade, eighth grade and English I writing outcomes. “Writing is a priority of our district,” she said, and pointed to gains in English I mastery levels and in biology and U.S. history EOCs, where mastery percentages rose notably.

Targets for continued work include seventh-grade on-level math—the district reported weaker performance there—and some K–5 writing grade levels where student responses sometimes did not answer the question or lacked textual evidence. Burbank also noted testing changes following House Bill 3906 that reduced the share of multiple-choice items and added short constructed responses and extended responses across grades, which factored into instruction and assessment preparation.

Administration said the district will use IXL (recently approved) for accelerated instruction for students who Did Not Meet and will provide more detailed accountability reporting once the state finalizes statewide accountability materials.