Performance Rating & Accreditation Status:
The Texas Education Agency awards an accreditation status to each public school district and charter school. The accreditation status is based on the academic accountability rating and financial ratings from the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas. A district or charter must be accredited by the state to operate as a public school.
The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to evaluate the performance of school districts and to assign to each district a performance rating as follows:
- Exemplary- (meets or exceeds state exemplary standards).
- Recognized- (meets or exceeds required improvement and within 10
percent of state exemplary standards).
- Academically acceptable- (below the exemplary and recognized
standards but exceeds the academically unacceptable standards)
- Academically unacceptable- (below the state clearly unacceptable
performance standard and does not meet required improvement).