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Best School Districts in Greater Dallas Area

Four Dallas Fort Worth school districts were awarded exemplary ratings by the Texas Education Agency for the 2008-2009 school year. Three of these districts, Carroll Independent School District, Highland Park Independent School District and Lovejoy Independent School District, top this 2009 ranking of the best school districts in the DFW metroplex, The other DFW exemplary rated district, Sunnyvale Independent School District, is in the fifth spot.


Top 10 Dallas / Fort Worth school districts


   
average campus accountability rating
number of campuses rated
1
Carroll Independent School District
3.00
11
1
Highland Park Independent School District
3.00
7
1
Lovejoy Independent School District
3.00
5
4
Argyle Independent School District
2.85
4
5
Sunnyvale Independent School District
2.77
3
6
Coppell Independent School District
2.72
14
7
Prosper Independent School District
2.69
5
8
Frisco Independent School District
2.62
40
9
Allen Independent School District
2.58
19
10
Melissa Independent School District
2.54
4
 
Campus accountability ratings
Exemplary = 3 Recognized = 2 Academically Acceptable = 1 Academically Unacceptable = 0

District rankings and accountability ratings and campus accountability rating information for school districts located in the DFW metroplex are shown at the bottom of this page. Also provided below is a description of the methodology used to develop the average campus accountability rating on which this ranking of Dallas area school districts is based.


School districts serving the northwest Dallas suburbs

Many of school districts in the DFW metroplex have campuses in more than one city or town. The Lewisville Independent School District, for example, serves not only the seven northwest Dallas suburbs listed in the table below, but also Lewisville, Carrollton, and The Colony. A question I hear frequently is how to do the schools that serve the northwest Dallas suburbs compare to other schools in the metroplex. As is shown below and discussed further on this Northwest Dallas Public Schools page, if the following school districts had campuses only in the northwest Dallas suburbs listed, most would rank among the best school districts in the DFW metroplex.


   
average campus accountability rating
northwest Dallas suburbs served
1
Carroll Independent School District
3.00
Southlake, Grapevine, Westlake
2
Argyle Independent School District
2.85
Argyle, Bartonville, Flower Mound
3
Lewisville Independent School District
2.78
Flower Mound, Highland Village, Coppell, Copper Canyon, Double Oak, southwest Frisco, west Plano
4
Frisco Independent School District
2.73
southwest Frisco, west Plano
5
Coppell Independent School District
2.71
Coppell
6
Northwest Independent School District
2.69
Trophy Club, Southlake, Flower Mound, Keller
6
Keller Independent School District
2.54
Keller, Southlake, Westlake
8
Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District
2.20
Colleyville, Grapevine
9
Plano Independent School District
2.15
west Plano, southwest Frisco
 
Campus accountability ratings
Exemplary = 3 Recognized = 2 Academically Acceptable = 1 Academically Unacceptable = 0

Additional evidence of the high quality of schools in the northwest Dallas suburbs is that ten of the top 20 public high schools in the DFW metroplex are located in this area, as shown on this Best Dallas / Fort Worth public high schools page.


School districts serving the DFW metroplex

The following table shows district and individual campus rating information for 52 independent school districts that operate public schools attended by students living in the greater Dallas area.

     
number of campuses rated
 

district rating
average campus accountability
rating

exemplary

recognized
academically
acceptable
academically
unacceptable
Allen ISD
Recognized
2.58
15
4
 
Anna ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.23
2
1
1
Argyle ISD
Recognized
2.85
3
1
 
Arlington ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.45
6
32
28
2
Azle ISD
Recognized
1.37
5
3
2
 
Birdville ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.83
11
11
9
 
Burleson ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.73
5
3
4
Carroll ISD
Exemplary
3.00
11
     
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.15
19
15
4
 
Castleberry ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.62
3
2
Cedar Hill ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.00
5
4
5
 
Celina ISD
Recognized
2.23
2
1
1
 
Coppell ISD
Recognized
2.72
11
3
   
Crowley ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.46
 
11
8
 
Dallas ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.55
46
82
73
22
Denton ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.80
10
10
9
 
DeSoto ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.41
1
4
7
Duncanville ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.03
9
4
3
 
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.59
5
6
8
Everman ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.67
3
2
1
Fort Worth ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.24
12
43
49
12
Frisco ISD
Recognized
2.62
32
7
1
 
Garland ISD
Recognized
1.99
33
20
13
 
Godley ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.85
3
1
Grand Prairie ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.54
6
18
10
2
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD
Recognized
2.20
10
5
2
 
Highland Park ISD
Exemplary
3.00
7
     
Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD
Recognized
2.22
11
14
1
 
Irving ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.53
3
14
14
 
Joshua ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.05
3
3
1
Keller ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.30
17
15
2
 
Kennedale ISD
Recognized
2.12
1
3
1
 
Lake Dallas ISD
Recognized
2.08
2
2
1
 
Lake Worth ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.67
1
3
2
Lancaster ISD
Academically Unacceptable
1.18
 
6
2
1
Lewisville ISD
Recognized
2.45
32
20
8
 
Little Elm ISD
Recognized
2.15
5
2
2
 
Lovejoy ISD
Exemplary
3.00
5
   
Mansfield ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.85
13
12
9
McKinney ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.86
12
9
5
1
Mellisa ISD
Recognized
2.54
2
2
   
Mesquite ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.67
9
21
14
 
Northwest ISD
Recognized
2.31
12
3
2
 
Plano ISD
Academically Acceptable
2.23
32
24
6
1
Prosper
Recognized
2.69
4
1
Red Oak ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.73
2
3
2
 
Richardson ISD
Recognized
2.40
36
16
1
 
Rockwall ISD
Recognized
2.42
11
5
 
Springtown ISD
Recognized
1.69
4
1
Sunnyvale ISD
Exemplary
2.77
2
1
   
White Settlement ISD
Academically Acceptable
1.77
3
3
2
Wylie ISD
Recognized
2.39
10
4
3
 
 
Campus accountability ratings
Exemplary = 3 Recognized = 2 Academically Acceptable = 1 Academically Unacceptable = 0


Methodology


Texas Education Agency (TEA) campus accountability ratings for the 2008-2009 school year was used in this evaluation and ranking of Dallas area school districts. While using a single factor to rank the school districts might be considered a somewhat simplistic approach, the criteria used by the TEA to award these accountability ratings are comprehensive and applied as consistently as possible to measure the performance of all public schools in the state of Texas. These ratings also have the added virtue of being readily available.

To develop the average campus accountability rating used to rank the school districts, each campus with an exemplary rating was awarded three points, a recognized rating merited two points, an academically acceptable rating was given one point and an academically unacceptable rating received zero points. All rated campuses within each school district were then grouped by school type and an average campus accountability rating for all school types calculated. Next, the average rating for each school type was weighted by first multiplying the number of grades being taught by that school type and then dividing by the number of grades taught in that district. The weighted average rating of all school types were then added together to derive the district's average campus accountability rating.


Source: Texas Education Agency


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