{"id":440416,"date":"2026-09-18T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440416\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:24:08","slug":"austin-isd-appeals-failing-school-ratings-for-burnet-webb-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440416\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin ISD appeals failing school ratings for Burnet, Webb | Central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin ISD<\/a> has appealed the fifth consecutive failing ratings at Burnet<\/a> and Webb<\/a> middle schools, the district and the Texas Education Agency<\/a> confirmed Sept. 18. If the ratings stand, state law requires the education commissioner to close a campus or replace the district’s elected board<\/a> with a board of managers.<\/p>\n

Some context<\/p>\n

Burnet and Webb each received a fifth consecutive failing rating in TEA’s 2026 A-F ratings<\/a>, released Aug. 14, according to previous Community Impact reporting<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Under state law<\/a>, five straight unacceptable ratings at any one campus require the commissioner to close it or replace the district’s elected board, regardless of the district’s overall rating.<\/p>\n

Dobie Middle School, which had four straight failing ratings, earned a ‘D’ this year and avoided a fifth ‘F’ that would have put a third campus at the state intervention threshold.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the district tried to hand management<\/a> of Burnet, Webb and Dobie to an outside partner. TEA rejected the application<\/a> in May, and AISD ended the partnership<\/a> in July, past reporting shows.<\/p>\n

What the district is saying<\/p>\n

AISD said it is providing additional coaching and professional development for teachers and staff and more intensive academic interventions for students at both schools. <\/p>\n

“We’re continuing our efforts because our students deserve a strong education, regardless of any possible intervention,” AISD Superintendent Matias Segura wrote in a Sept. 14 letter to families<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Segura said families at Burnet and Webb can petition TEA to close the campuses. If a majority sign, the commissioner will allow AISD to submit a closure plan. The district said it won’t gather signatures or advocate for the petition.<\/p>\n

How it works<\/p>\n

Only a district superintendent or chief operating officer can file an appeal, and an external panel reviews it, according to TEA.<\/p>\n

TEA’s manual<\/a> says districts may appeal for any reason, but requests for exceptions to accountability rules are viewed unfavorably and will most likely be denied.<\/p>\n

Neither agency said when the appeal was filed or on what grounds. TEA’s appeals window closed Sept. 11, per the agency’s 2026 timeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What happens next<\/p>\n

The commissioner sends decisions to appealing districts by letter before Dec. 11, when TEA releases final ratings and counts of consecutive years of unacceptable performance.<\/p>\n

Current ratings and year-over-year history are available at txschools.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin ISD has appealed the fifth consecutive failing ratings at Burnet and Webb middle schools, the district and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[144185,132,134,1685,152437,133,2826,41155,152438,152440,6801,152439,16529,6549,2810,41154],"class_list":["post-440416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-a-f-accountability-ratings","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-isd","tag-austin-isd-appeal","tag-austin-news","tag-board-of-managers","tag-burnet-middle-school","tag-campus-closure","tag-central-austin-education","tag-matias-segura","tag-parent-petition","tag-state-takeover","tag-tea","tag-texas-education-agency","tag-webb-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440416","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=440416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}