The scores forecast\u00a0an increasingly growing threat of the state taking over the entire school system. The state may be mandated to act\u00a0if any one of the three middle schools receives a failing grade from the Texas Education Agency in August.<\/p>\n
Austin ISD didn\u2019t immediately return a request for comment about the scores.\u00a0While the TEA doesn\u2019t publicly release letter grades until August, districts often calculate their scores in advance.<\/p>\n
Dobie, Burnet and Webb middle schools have struggled to meet grade level standards since 2019, when all three campuses received an F rating.\u00a0The state assigns schools an A-F letter grade based largely upon results of the STAAR test.<\/p>\n
On average, students at Dobie, Burnet and Webb improved their STAAR performance since 2025.\u00a0However, in every subject and grade level, at least 49% of students did not pass the test.<\/p>\n
Students do\u00a0not need to meet grade level standards to pass STAAR, so the rate of Dobie, Burnet and Webb students who have proven they are on grade level is even lower.<\/p>\n
Only 8% of Webb sixth graders met math standards. Between 14 and 16% of sixth graders at\u00a0Dobie and Burnet met math standards.\u00a0Only 4% of Webb sixth graders met reading standards. At Dobie and Burnet, 26% and 16% of sixth graders, respectively, met reading standards.<\/p>\n
Senate Bill 1882, a 2017 law, allows districts to partner with charter schools, universities or nonprofits to unlock extra state funding for a campus and pause accountability sanctions for two years. The TEA must approve the partner\u00a0for those benefits to go into effect.<\/p>\n
Although the TEA has previously approved 1882 partnerships with TCIS elsewhere in the state, agency officials told Austin ISD in a letter last month that standards have become more rigorous since a rule change in 2020.\u00a0The agency cited an \u201cuneven\u201d TCIS track record on boosting student learning as a reason the campuses would not get an accountability pause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scores forecast\u00a0an increasingly growing threat of the state taking over the entire school system. The state may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-338772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}