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Austin ISD presents 2024–25 STAAR/STAR results showing mixed recovery and persistent gaps for economically disadvantaged students
Summary
District staff presented spring 2024–25 STAR and STAAR EOC results, showing some rebounds in reading and science and continuing disparities in outcomes for economically disadvantaged students; trustees asked for more state comparisons and subgroup analysis.
Austin Independent School District staff presented detailed spring 2024–25 STAR (Texas state assessment) and STAAR end-of-course (EOC) results at the Sept. 25 board meeting, reporting modest rebounds in several subjects but continuing, entrenched gaps by socioeconomic status.
Dylan Feenan, director of campus and district accountability, and Joshua Judd, executive director of governance and accountability, led the briefing and walked trustees through longitudinal charts. The presentation showed increases in “meets and above” in some reading and science measures compared with the previous year; math results showed stabilization after a steeper decline in 2024. Several grade-level charts showed uneven trends across grades.
District staff highlighted a large disparity between economically disadvantaged students and their peers: for STAR grades 3–8 combined, 23% of students labeled economically disadvantaged…
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