{"id":405895,"date":"2026-08-13T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405895\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:32:10","slug":"houston-isd-says-district-more-than-doubles-number-of-a-and-b-rated-schools-since-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405895\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston ISD says district more than doubles number of A and B-rated schools since 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-e2115db2=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; The Houston Independent School District says the district has more than doubled the number of schools earning an A or B accountability rating since 2023 in the 2026 Texas Education Agency accountability system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Houston ISD says district more than doubles the number of A, B-rated schools since 2023 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the release, 92 Houston ISD schools earned an A and 113 earned a B. In 2023, according to Houston ISD, just 93 schools earned an A or B.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">School officials said at the same time, the number of HISD schools receiving a D or F has fallen from 120 in 2023 to 13 in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;These ratings represent the hard work of our students, teachers, and staff and the transformation happening in classrooms across the District,&#8221; Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles said in a news release. &#8220;Three years ago, too many students were attending low-performing schools. Today, 205 schools are earning an A or B, and every one of our middle and high schools is out of D and F status. Houston&#8217;s students are succeeding, and we should celebrate them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">School officials said among the schools with an A rating was Wheatley High School. They said in 2019, Wheatley received its seventh consecutive failing accountability rating, triggering a law that required the state to either close the campus or replace HISD&#8217;s Board of Trustees, setting in motion the legal process that ultimately resulted in the state intervention in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Seven years after that failing rating and three years after the intervention began, Wheatley is now an A-rated school,&#8221; the release stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">School officials added that North Forest High School also earned an A rating for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston ISD also said in 2023, 40 secondary schools received a D or F rating. In 2026, there are no D or F-rated HISD middle or high schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">School officials did not provide a list breakdown of each school in the news release sent out on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Independent School District news release<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/education\/houston-isd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston ISD<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/education\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Education<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; The Houston Independent School District says the district has more than doubled the number of schools&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[163,56,58,1686,57,223,2053],"class_list":["post-405895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-education","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-isd","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405895","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=405895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}