ECTOR COUNTY, TX (KWES) - Tuesday afternoon, officials of the Ector County Independent School District highlighted some of the significant progress being made in their schools – while acknowledging the district still has work to do when it comes to Accountability Ratings.
Under the revised STAAR Accountability System, the basics of this year's 2017-18 Accountability Ratings report:
- Ector County ISD earned a Met Performance Standard rating.
- 32 schools are rated Met Standard, while 8 schools are rated Improvement Required for the second year in a row. Five elementary schools – Zavala (5 years), Noel (5 years), Goliad (3 years), Pease (3 years) and E.K. Downing (1 year) scored well enough to come off the low performing list to hit Met Standard, a huge accomplishment for all. Ector Middle School, now an in-district charter school, is not rated this year.
- Two schools – Blackshear Elementary (4th year in a row) and Crockett Middle School (1st year) did not meet standard and are rated Improvement Required.
- Six schools – Bonham Middle School, Bowie Middle School, Wilson & Young Middle School, Gale Pond Alamo Elementary, Burnet Elementary, and West Elementary all met the overall standard but are rated Improvement Required due to a rule change implemented by the Texas Education Agency in July. While their average score was high enough to meet the standard, three of four individual domain scores fell short resulting in what the state terms ‘forced failure’ for those campuses.
For more information on this reports, contact ECISD Communications at 432-456-9019.
