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Godley ISD outlines multi‑year targets under House Bill 3, proposes modest annual gains
Summary
District officials presented a five‑year District Improvement Plan aligned to House Bill 3, proposing mostly 3% year‑over‑year growth targets in literacy and math and smaller gains where performance is already high. The board will revisit and likely approve the full plan in September.
Dr. Nix, a district administrator, presented Godley Independent School District’s District Improvement Plan goals and the district’s alignment with House Bill 3, saying the targets are designed to be measurable, reported annually and revisited each year as part of a five‑year vision.
"We started with our current standard, at 45% in 2026. We talked a lot as a team and decided that a 3% increase year over year was achievable," Dr. Nix said, describing the literacy target for third grade. He told the board the district set a similar 3% annual growth target for math (baseline 39%) and explained the College, Career and Military Readiness (CCMR) indicator is at about 85% for Godley ISD, so the district proposed a smaller 1% increase in that category because larger gains would be unrealistic.
The presentation explained that House Bill 3 goals must be specific, quantifiable and reported for subpopulations (economically disadvantaged students, English learners, continuously enrolled students and others). Dr. Nix noted that categories with fewer than 25 students are suppressed in public reporting to avoid identifying individuals.
Dr. Nix also described state changes to testing and accountability that will affect measurement and interventions. He said the state is moving toward through‑the‑year assessments (beginning, middle and end) that districts can adopt; the district plans to stop using MAP testing after this school year and rely on the state's through‑the‑year option and quarterly common‑based assessments to provide more timely data. "The state is telling us right now that the through the year testing results will be returned within 3 or 4 days," Dr. Nix said, arguing faster results will allow more midyear interventions.
Board members asked for concrete counts to contextualize percentage changes; Dr. Nix estimated roughly 250–270 students per grade level and gave ballpark figures for how many students a given percentage point represents. He said the district recently added one‑third of a counselor FTE at the high school to support CCMR work and that counselors use trackers to monitor students throughout the year.
The board was told the full District Improvement Plan will return to the district advisory council in August and to the board for final approval in September. The district did not set final academic targets at the meeting; Dr. Nix said those ratings and some state adjustments were still pending.
