Accountability

Campus Ratings

Texas Education Agency (TEA) provides annual academic accountability ratings to its public school districts and campuses. Given the impact of COVID-19, all districts and schools received a label of Not Rated: Declared State of Disaster for their 2020 accountability ratings. Labels and data shown below reflect 2018-19 accountability outcomes.

Parents are encouraged to visit TXschools.gov to view online report cards designed to be useful tools in seeing how a school or school district is doing in different areas. These online report cards include easy-to-read descriptions and tools describing just how the A-F rating system works.

District Ratings

Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD (057903)
Accreditation Status: Accredited
2018 Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST) Rating: 100 (A)
2019 State Accountability Rating: 89 (B)

The 85^th Texas Legislature passed House Bill (HB) 22, establishing three domains for measuring the academic performance of districts and campuses: Student Achievement, School Progress, and Closing the Gaps. Seventy percent of the accountability rating is based on either Student Achievement or School Progress, whichever is the higher grade. Student Achievement (Domain 1) includes STAAR tests; college, career, military readiness; and graduation rates. School Progress (Domain 2) includes how much improvement students made from one year to the next on STAAR tests, or how well they did in relation to comparable campuses, whichever is greater. The remaining 30 percent is based on performance in the Closing the Gaps area (Domain 3) which looks at how well schools do educating children in up to 14 different student groups.

Given the impact of COVID-19, all districts and schools received a label of Not Rated: Declared State of Disaster for their 2020 accountability ratings. CFBISD earned an 89 (B) overall in 2018-19 with the following Domain scores:

Student Achievement 87 (B)
School Progress 89 (B)
Closing the Gaps 89 (B)

Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD – 2019 District Rating

District Annual Report

The Texas Education Code (TEC), §39.306, requires each school district’s Board of Trustees to publish an annual performance report that includes the TAPR report; campus performance objectives and the progress toward those objectives; district accreditation status; campus distinction designation and ratings; the district’s current special education compliance status; report on violent or criminal incidents; and information from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Data and information presented within the 2019-20 District Annual Report was generated from 2019-20 Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) released by Texas Education Agency.

The Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District held a public hearing on the Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR) at 5:00 PM on Monday, January 11, 2021. A presentation on of TAPR and the 2019-20 District Annual Report was presented to Board of Trustees during pre-meeting briefing of the Thursday, January 14, 2021 scheduled regular School Board meeting.

School Report Card

The School Report Card (SRC) is prepared and released by Texas Education Agency (TEA) annually in December. SRC combines accountability ratings, data from the Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR), and financial information to give a broad view of campus performance. Available for each campus in Texas, the SRC is intended specifically to inform parents and guardians about a school’s individual characteristics and its academic performance.

School and student information provides demographic data about the campus, including attendance rates; enrollment percentages for various student groups; student mobility rates; and class size averages at the campus, district, and state level, where applicable.

School Report Cards for each CFBISD campus can be accessed at TEA’s website: Search from TEA’s website.

TAPR

Prepared and released by Texas Education Agency (TEA) annually, the Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR) details academic performance, financial reports, and information about staff, programs, and demographics for the district and each campus.

TAPR academic performance includes information on STAAR test results and participation rates. The report disaggregates performance on state and national assessments across fourteen student groups based on race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, and program services.

Within Postsecondary Readiness, TAPR combines attendance, dropout and graduation rates, along with course completion rates for students earning advanced/dual credit, completed career and technology (CTE) coherent sequence, and Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate (AP/IB) prior to high school graduation. Additional information on postsecondary enrollment is also provided under Postsecondary Outcomes.

TAPR campus and district resources can be accessed at TEA’s website: Search from TEA’s website.