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Pasadena ISD holds required public hearing on 2023–24 annual performance report
Summary
At a Feb. 2025 board meeting, Pasadena ISD presented its 2023–24 annual performance report as required by the Texas Education Code; the district highlighted gains in college, career and military readiness, kindergarten readiness and teacher retention and confirmed the report’s public posting on the district website.
Pasadena Independent School District officials held a public hearing Tuesday on the district’s 2023–24 annual performance report, a document the district said it posted in accordance with Texas Education Code requirements.
Donna Summers, executive director of program support and achievement, told the board the hearing fulfills Texas Education Code 39.362’s requirement that the district hold a public hearing on its annual performance report and that the report be publicly posted with linked components including the Texas Academic Performance Reports, accreditation status, campus improvement plan objectives, a violent or criminal offense summary and federal report cards.
Summers said the district posts the report on the Pasadena ISD website under required postings for accountability and that the communication team is continuing to move older documents to a new site. “If you see a link that isn’t there yet, it’s because he’s still in the moving process,” Summers said, referring to district web staff.
The report highlights several district performance measures. Summers reported that for the class of 2023 every student group, including students receiving special education services and emergent bilinguals, achieved at least 80% college, career and military readiness — a rise she described as “almost a 20% jump from two years ago.” She also said student groups exceeded state and federal targets by an average of about 26% per group over the two most recent years.
On early education, Summers said kindergarten readiness rose by 7.5 percentage points to 63.6% districtwide; for children who attended a prekindergarten program at least 80 days, the kindergarten-readiness rate rose to 73.4%. Summers noted Pasadena’s readiness rates were higher than both the region and the state by about 10 percentage points in those measures.
Summers also described staffing and retention metrics: campus leaders average seven years of experience, teachers average about 10 years, and the district’s teacher turnover rate is 15.7%, compared with a state average of 19.1%.
Board members asked clarifying questions about how many years of reports the district must retain online; Summers confirmed state law requires three years of posted records and that older reports remain available upon request.
The district said it will make printed copies available at central office for anyone who requests them and encouraged community members to use the online posting for the full report and linked components.
For reference, the state did not issue accountability ratings for 2023 or 2024; Summers said links to the state pages will indicate that no accountability ratings were available for those years.
