Texas school districts are evaluated in several ways by the Texas Education Agency. Click on the links below for the most recent district accountability information.


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Click on the Download button for an overview of the components of the Accountability Rating System. For more details on the state accountability system, go to www.tea.state.tx.us/accountability.html.

Click on the Download button for a summary of the Accountability Rating requirements. For more details on the state accountability system, go to www.tea.state.tx.us/accountability.html.

Section 1111(h)(2) of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires that each LEA that received Title I, Part A funding to disseminate specific LEA (district) and campus level data to (1) all LEA campuses, (2) parents of all enrolled students, and (3) to make the information widely available through public means such as posting on the Internet, distribution to the media, or distribution through public agencies.

1. The School Report Card distributed in the Spring of 2009 included assessment results in the aggregate and disaggregated by race, ethnicity, English proficiency, and economically disadvantaged: by performance level; showing two-year trend data for each subject and grade tested; with a comparison between annual objectives and actual performance for each student group; and including the percentage of each group of students not tested.

2. The School Report Card distributed in the Spring of 2009 included graduation rates for secondary school students.

3. Highland ISD and all campuses met Adequate Yearly Progress requirements under
No Child Left Behind for 2007-08. More information is available at:
www.tea.state.tx.us/ayp/2008/district.srch.html.

3. There are no Title I schools in this district identified as in need of improvement.

4. The percentage of teachers in this district teaching with emergency or provisional credentials is 1.6%, and the percentage of classes in this district that are not taught by highly qualified teachers is 1.6%. Because this district is a single attendance district, a comparison between high- and low-poverty schools does not apply.

This information is posted on the district web site at www.highland.esc14.net, and a copy is available at each principal’s office. IF YOU WISH TO HAVE A PAPER COPY OF THIS NCLB REPORT CARD IN ITS ENTIRETY, PLEASE REQUEST ONE FROM EITHER PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004), Section 616(b), requires each state to develop a six-year performance plan. This State Performance Plan (SPP) evaluates the State’s efforts to implement the requirements and purposes of IDEA and illustrates how the State will continuously improve upon this implementation.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004), Section 616(b)(2)(C)(i)(II), requires states to publicly report LEA performance against the state target.

For more information, please visit the TEA Special Education web page at: www.tea.state.tx.us/special.ed/spp/distprofiles.html

Click the "Download" button to download HISD's performance indicators for 2006-07.