The following links have accountability data for Texas school districts.
Campus and District Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS)
Note: The latest AEIS reports are always for the prior school year. Some information maybe two years behind. These reports show enrollment figures, SAT and ACT testing information, demographic information about students and teachers, and buget expeditures for campus and district programs.
2007 Accountability Manual
Campus and District Ratings
These are the ratings given to campuses and districts by the Texas Education Agency. Rating are derived from multiple indicators. Results on the TAKS test is a key component in determining a rating. These ratings are included on the AEIS report for each school and district in Texas. For a detailed explanation see the latest TEA Accountability Manual.
Adequate Yearly Progress Reports (AYP)
AYP ratings are given to Districts and Campuses by the federal government as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The AYP ratings are different than those used in the AEIS reports given by TEA. The two ratings can vary because the indicators used to determine these ratings are different. Its helpful to know that the results of the same TAKS test is still the main indicator used to produce both AYP ratings and Texas AEIS ratings. Select a year then select District data tables. You can select to see all the campuses AYP ratings in the selected district. If you select District and Campus list you will download a 190 page list of all campuses in Texas. For a more detailed explanation of the AYP rating criteria please link to the 2007 AYP Guide.
Just for the Kids MISD data link.
Just for the Kids is a part of the National Center for Educational Accountability and also a part of ACT inc. the company that produces the ACT test. Just for the Kids produces a web site that compares your school to a list of ten other demographically similar comparison schools. These comparison schools are the top performing schools within this similar demographic group. Components such as the percent of low socio-economic students, the percent of Limited English Proficiency students, and generally the size of the school are used to form the groups for comparison. This data allows school leaders, parents and teachers to make the sometimes difficult comparison of their school's performance on TAKS to the ten high performing comparison schools. Comparision schools are located in the same state.
JFTK does not look solely at the percent of students in a school passing the TAKS test, rather they focus on the percent of students that have scale scores on the TAKS test at a level they consider "College Ready". A scale score of 2100 is set as the passing level for TAKS. The Texas Education Agency considers a score of 2400 as meeting the "Commended Performance" and generally speaking JFTK's college readiness level is close to that. JFTK looks at the Opportunity Gap or the difference that exists between your school's percent of students reaching the commended performance level and the average level of your ten comparison schools.
The site offers good data and an excellent opportunity to compare your school to top performing schools.
Some could argue that a higher scale score on a TAKS test is not the best criteria for determining whether a student is college ready, but that is the best data available to make that comparison here.
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
This site contains good data on high school to college enrollment figures in Texas shown by district.
Report on Texas Graduating Class of 2006 and College Admission Testing
