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La Porte ISD holds public hearing on 2023–24 annual report and TAPR; trustees hear test-data caveats
Summary
District staff presented the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) content and other annual-report items and noted that state accountability ratings for 2023–24 remained subject to litigation and delayed release.
La Porte ISD held a required public hearing on the district annual report, including the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR), with staff summarizing student assessment performance, attendance, graduation and college-career readiness indicators.
A staff presenter walked trustees through TAPR components and stressed that the formal accountability rating for 2023–24 was not published at the time because the state’s accountability rules and calculations were under litigation. The presenter said the TAPR includes disaggregated STAAR performance data, attendance and graduation measures (which appear with a one-year lag), and college, career and military readiness (CCMR) metrics.
On the 2022–23 data included in the TAPR, staff highlighted gains: chronic absenteeism dropped by roughly 10 percentage points year-over-year and the district’s CCMR rate rose from 69.6% to 86.6% on the reported dataset. Staff also said the district’s industry-based certification (IBC) success rate increased from about 30.4% to 58.4%.
Presenters told the board the TAPR and the district annual report would be posted on the district website within two weeks and paper copies made available on request. A public comment opportunity for the annual report drew no speakers.
Trustees asked for a concise “cliff notes” version of the TAPR once the state publishes final accountability data; staff agreed to produce a brief summary for trustees when the state releases the report. Several trustees also raised a question about a teacher-count table that listed “gifted and talented education” as zero on one page; staff said they would investigate and report back.
The hearing closed with no public speakers during the comment period, and staff said an updated TAPR would be posted when state decisions are final.
