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Ysleta ISD reports gains across many measures in annual TAPR presentation
Summary
District staff presented the required Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR/TAPER) showing Ysleta students outscored regional and state averages on multiple measures, with particular gains in math, growth and college‑and‑career readiness.
Ysleta Independent School District officials on Wednesday presented the district’s annual Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR), telling the Board of Trustees that the district outperformed the region and the state on many measures for the 2023–24 reporting year.
District staff said the presentation is required by law and drew on state‑provided official results. The report covered three performance levels on the STAAR (Approaches, Meets and Masters), disaggregated results for emerging bilingual and special‑education students, growth measures, graduation rates, dropout rates and college‑and‑career readiness (CCMR).
Key findings presented - Districtwide, the percentage of students meeting the Approaches grade level standard and higher exceeded both the region and the state in every subject tested in 2024, the presenter said. - On the Meets and Masters performance categories, Ysleta similarly outscored regional averages in many grades and subjects; the district still trailed the state in some Masters‑level reading and social‑studies measures but exceeded the region. - Growth measures — including annual growth and an “accelerated learning” metric for students who failed the previous year then met grade level — showed Ysleta outpacing the region and matching or exceeding state growth in several areas; staff highlighted strong gains in mathematics. - Graduation and dropouts: the district’s four‑, five‑ and six‑year graduation rates compared favorably with the region; the five‑year rate was within one‑tenth of a percentage point of the state, and the six‑year rate exceeded state and regional averages. Dropout rates were lower than the region at most time horizons. - College, career and military readiness: for the 2023 graduating cohort, staff reported 88.8% of graduates met CCMR criteria; district staff said the 2024 cohort data will be in next year’s report.
Board questions and requests Trustees asked staff for more granular numbers behind the percentages, particularly for graduation cohorts and several middle‑school grade levels. The presenter said the district can provide absolute counts to supplement the percentages on future slides or in follow‑up materials.
Legal and reporting context The TAPER/TAPR presentation referenced the Texas Education Code, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and federal reporting statutes. District staff reminded trustees that the 2024 tables include newly disaggregated incident categories for vaping and THC possession that did not exist in 2023, which increased some reported incident counts because the state split previous categories into multiple codes.
Next steps Trustees asked staff to supply the underlying counts behind several percentages and to continue campus‑level follow up on middle‑school performance gaps. Staff said more detailed campus and cohort numbers would be provided following the meeting.
