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Round Rock ISD presents 2024'25 annual report: district earns B rating and posts 98.66% graduation rate
Summary
Round Rock ISD staff told the Board of Trustees the district earned a B (score of 87) on the 2024'25 TAPR, reported a 98.66% graduation rate, and showed year-over-year gains across multiple student groups while noting some groups remain off track for board targets.
Round Rock Independent School District staff presented the 2024'25 annual report and Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) during a public hearing, saying the district's TAPR score of 87 yields a B accreditation-level indicator.
"With a score of 87, our district is rated a B," said Dr. Natalie Nichols, senior chief of schools and innovation, as she walked trustees through the report and the components parents and taxpayers can review on the district website.
The presentation summarized multiple report components required by the Texas Education Code and published by the Texas Education Agency, including PEIMS financial statements, campus performance objectives, incident reports and special education determinations. Nichols said the district's special education determination "meets requirements" and added that the official accreditation release would be posted when available.
Nichols highlighted funding and outcome measures: the PEIMS example slide showed that Round Rock ISD relies heavily on local property taxes for its general fund — roughly 87% in the example on the slide — with state and federal program revenues making up a smaller share. On safety, she read statistics for the 2024'25 school year indicating 619 incidents in the district summary slide, of which the presentation identified about 68% as possession/under-the-influence of alcohol or controlled substances, 17% as assault and 15% as other incident types.
The report also tracks progress on House Bill 3 goals (early literacy, early math, and college, career and military readiness, or CCMR). Nichols said that while some student populations are on track, others remain off track relative to board targets. She reported year-over-year gains for multiple groups in the class-of-2024 data: special education (+10 percentage points), two-or-more-races (+12), African American (+10), Hispanic (+8), economically disadvantaged (+12), immersion bilingual (+13), White (+7) and Asian (+1), and noted those gains represent substantial progress even where board-set targets have not yet been reached.
On postsecondary outcomes, Nichols cited Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board data showing one-year college outcomes for about 63% of the Class of 2023; she cautioned that the district does not capture enrollments outside Texas, so college-enrollment rates in the TAPR likely undercount students who enroll out of state.
Graduation and dropout slides showed strong results in the district example: Nichols said the district's overall graduation rate was 98.66% in the slide excerpt, above the cited state rate of 94.2% and a regional rate of 94.7%.
Nichols closed by reminding the public that full TAPR and campus reports will be posted to the district website and to the Texas Education Agency site as required. President Markham asked whether trustees preferred questions during or after the presentation; the board chose to take questions at the end of the presentation. Trustee Landrum asked whether the TAPR would be updated when accreditation is released; Nichols replied the board would be informed but that a new TAPR would not be reissued for that single change.
The board adjourned after a short break and scheduled the next meeting to resume at 6:30 p.m.
