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CFB ISD reviews TEA accountability ‘refresh,’ courts and 2023–24 rating changes
Summary
District staff summarized how changes in Texas Education Agency calculations, courts and new scaling affected the district’s 2023 and projected 2024 accountability ratings and explained why district and campus weights now depend on enrollment.
District staff walked the board through recent changes to state accountability calculations and what they mean for Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD ratings during the May 1 meeting.
“It's important to understand that the accountability system is made up of 3 separate domains,” presenter Miss Keane said, describing Domain 1 (student achievement and CCMR), Domain 2 (school progress) and Domain 3 (closing the gaps). She warned that the system’s complexity — raw calculations that are then scaled to a letter grade — complicates apples-to-apples comparisons across years.
Keane reviewed a string of developments: TEA delayed publishing a refreshed accountability manual for 2023, multiple districts sought injunctions over timing, and the 14th Court of Appeals ruled in April that TEA had authority to release the 2023 ratings. Keane said the methodology changed substantially: the district-level rating now uses a proportional, enrollment-weighted average of campus ratings (so large campuses carry more weight) rather than treating every campus equally.
She highlighted several numeric and programmatic changes the district will confront: TEA tightened cut points and targets across domains; the college, career and military readiness (CCMR) scaling increased such that an A now requires a much higher percentage (Keane described an example where a prior 60% threshold for an A moved “all the way up to an 88%” in scaled terms); and domain 3 moved to a 0–4 scoring method to better reflect gaps-closing progress. Keane said district-wide approach-level STAR performance rose from about 71% to 76% between the referenced years and that 56% of campuses were projected to earn an A or B for 2024. She also noted the district’s graduation rate of 94.1% exceeds state and regional percentages.
Board members asked for plain-language explanations for the community. Keane said an “accountability refresh” refers to the set of methodology and scaling changes TEA implemented. She also laid out the near-term timetable for 2025 projections: final STAAR testing results arrive in late May and June, and the district will begin internal projection work after those test outcomes.
The discussion was informational only; the board did not take formal action on accountability during the meeting.
