Children At Risk’s annual school rankings are aimed at helping parents, educators and the community understand how schools are performing and where they can improve. The education advocacy and research nonprofit has been ranking Texas public schools for nearly 20 years, primarily using state standardized math and reading test scores, as well as high school achievement data to grade campuses.
Elementary and middle schools are graded upon three metrics: raw student achievement, achievement relative to poverty levels, and year-over-year student growth. High schools are also graded on a fourth metric, college readiness, which evaluates if students are graduating on time.