Texas releases 2024, 2025 A-F grades. See how your child’s Tarrant school rates
The Texas Education Agency has released 2024 and 2025 A-F accountability grades for all Texas school districts and campuses. The grades give administrators, parents and community members insights into academic performance.
The grades are heavily weighted by student performance on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR exam, but also include calculations of student progress over time and closing the gaps between student demographics.
The release of the 2024 grades was delayed due to a lawsuit. The 2023 grades underwent a similar legal delay but were released in April. State officials said in a statement on Friday that the release of the 2025 grades “reestablishes critical transparency for Texas families, communities and school leaders after two years of lawsuit-induced delays.”
“Today marks a return to clarity and accountability. With the release of the 2025 A–F Ratings, we are reinforcing our commitment to transparency and to providing accurate, readily available information that helps every family understand how their school is doing,” said Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath.
Statewide, 24% of districts and 31% of campuses improved their letter grade, according to TEA. Officials noted that 43% of high-poverty campuses received an A or B grade, “continuing to prove that demographics do not equal destiny.”
The grades for every public school and district in the state can be viewed at TXschools.gov.
More information on how they’re calculated can be viewed here.
Improvements seen across Fort Worth, Tarrant County
In the city of Fort Worth, A- and B-rated campuses increased from 33% to 42%, while D- and F-rated campuses decreased from 35% to 24%, said Leila Santillán, chief operating officer of the Fort Worth Education Partnership.
Even though the city’s share of A- and B-rated campuses still trails the state, the year-to-year improvement in ratings seen locally outpaced the state, she said. Texas schools receiving an A or B rating increased by eight percentage points — 51% to 59% — while those that received a D or F rating dropped by six percentage points — 22% to 16%.
“I think the big picture is that this year’s ratings show progress in kind of the greater Fort Worth community. I think the challenge now is to kind of keep and build on this momentum, to make sure that that’s true for every kid, and ensure that schools that are seeing progress continue on that trajectory,” Santillán said.
She noted it was important for schools and districts to look deeper at the data behind the letter grades themselves to analyze how they can continue improving student achievement.
Looking at Tarrant County, 35% of the county’s 489 rated campuses saw gains, according to the Commit Partnership, a Dallas-based education nonprofit.
The percentage of the county’s F-rated campuses that improved from 2024 to 2025 was 64%.
However, an additional Tarrant County district — Lake Worth ISD — now faces the possibility of a state takeover after one of the district’s schools received five consecutive years of failing grades. Miller Language Academy in Lake Worth ISD received its fifth F this year.
Fort Worth ISD sees boost in letter grades
Fort Worth Independent School District officials revealed earlier this week that the number of campuses in the district with an F grade declined from 31 to 11, and 63 schools gained a letter grade.
Fort Worth ISD sustained its overall C grade from 2024 to 2025.
Fort Worth ISD’s improvement in letter grades for its campuses comes forward as it awaits a decision by TEA on whether the district will undergo a state takeover. Morath notified the district of the possibility after the release of the 2023 grades in April revealed that a Fort Worth ISD campus had received five failed grades in a row. According to state law, this threshold requires the state to take action by either closing the campus or appointing a board of managers to replace the sitting school board.
The campus, the Leadership Academy at Forest Oak Sixth Grade, was already closed by the district in 2023 and consolidated into Forest Oak Middle School. Morath has said he may still be required to take action regardless, but he will not make a final decision until sometime this fall. On the district’s first day of school on Tuesday, Superintendent Karen Molinar said Morath would be visiting the district in September.
Molinar told the Star-Telegram on Thursday the Fort Worth ISD is celebrating the boost in letter grades while underscoring the importance of sustaining that growth as officials work to reverse a reading and math crisis that’s defined the district for several years.
“Our campuses who made those tremendous gains, they still have to do something different this coming school year,” she said. “They can’t just do what they did last year.”
On Fort Worth ISD’s first day of school on Tuesday, Molinar highlighted M.L. Phillips Elementary as one of the district’s success stories. The school jumped from an F-rated campus to a B-rated campus from 2024 to 2025. Three other schools saw the same improvement: Cesar Chavez Elementary, Versia Williams Elementary and D. McRae Elementary.
Education commissioner acknowledges progress — but is it enough?
At a news conference Friday at Walnut Hill International Learning Academy in Dallas ISD, Morath said he hasn’t yet decided how he’ll intervene in Fort Worth ISD. During his visit to the district next month, he plans to look at campus leadership systems — specifically, whether they’re designed to make sure teachers have the support they need to do their jobs and are capable of correcting teachers when they aren’t doing well.
He’ll also look at whether the district’s curriculum challenges students, provides them with material that’s on grade level and is rooted in cognitive science, and whether teachers deliver instruction in a way that keeps students engaged. After those visits are complete, he’ll announce his decision “in the coming months,” he said.
Fort Worth ISD has “significant challenges” in helping kids reach grade level, Morath said. Those issues go beyond one single campus, he said — several other schools in the district have received poor ratings for years, but TEA hasn’t taken action because of a COVID-era pause on state intervention.
Morath acknowledged that Fort Worth ISD is making progress, and those gains are reflected in this year’s A-F scores. But the district has a long way to go, he said. He noted the percentage of students performing on grade level in Fort Worth ISD is substantially lower than in Dallas ISD, although the districts are demographically similar.
“The question is whether or not improvement is happening fast enough and wide enough to meaningfully impact the lives of students in Fort Worth,” he said. “...We need to see the quality of schools improve, and improve rapidly.”
Gap in academic data restored
Miguel Solis, president of the Dallas-based Commit Partnership, said on Friday this year is the first time the public has had access to consecutive, comparable performance data since the accountability system was created in 2017. The COVID-19 pandemic, lawsuits and a 2023 update in how state officials calculate the A-F grades drove this gap in the ratings.
“Three years worth of data, performance data, has been provided to parents over the course of essentially five months. That is extremely insightful for parents to better understand the state of the school that their child has been in for multiple years,” Solis said during a virtual news conference.
“To be clear, they have always known how their individual student performed on the STAAR assessment, but they’ve not been able to understand the quality of their school or the quality of the school system that that school rests within,” Solis added.
The Commit Partnership highlighted Kenneth Davis Elementary in Mansfield ISD as one of the statewide standouts in terms of growth from 2023 to 2025. Now an A-rated school according to the 2025 data, the campus made the climb from an F rating in 2023 and a B rating in 2024.
The education nonprofit pointed to pre-K expansion, high-quality curriculum, targeted professional development and teacher retainment through the state’s Teacher Incentive Allotment as some of the components contributing to academic improvements.
This story was originally published August 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM.
