risco ISD has received an “A” in the Texas Education Agency’s 2022-23 district and campus accountability ratings — the largest school district in Texas to receive the top grade.
Campus ratings are now available on each school’s Campus Overview page.
Newly released ratings for the District and individual campuses reflect years-old data, blocked since 2023 by ongoing litigation joined by Frisco ISD. A state appeals court ruled in April 2025 that the ratings could be released.
“Accountability is important — we want to ensure our students are learning and growing, and we take that responsibility seriously. But our district and campuses are more than a letter grade,” said Frisco ISD Superintendent Dr. Mike Waldrip. “The state ratings are just one snapshot. They don’t capture the full picture of student success in Frisco ISD.”
Local accountability system
In an effort to recognize and report on educational outcomes above and beyond standardized testing, Frisco ISD implemented a local accountability system several years ago. FISD’s District Accountability Reports and Campus Accountability Reports provide information to schools and communities through the lens of the Future-Ready Framework.
Local accountability is a direct response to the fact that test-based state accountability systems fail to offer much information or insight into the actual changes or improvements that need to occur within a school.
District and Campus Accountability Reports let Frisco ISD families dig deeper into educational outcomes and goals for improvement — details that are unquantifiable on standardized assessments.
For example, the 2024 District Accountability Report includes:
District goals within the Future-Ready Framework, and evidence of progress
District survey results
Staff retention and student demographic data
2024-25 strategic priorities
Although state ratings are one small part of how Frisco ISD is accountable to students and their families, that does not diminish students’ testing success over the years. When comparing STAAR results with state numbers, FISD students have higher scores than state averages for all subject areas across all grade levels. SAT, ACT and AP scores also outstrip state averages.
Basis for A-F ratings
The A-F accountability system gives a school district a single grade, and campuses four grades — Overall, Student Achievement, School Progress and Closing the Gaps.
Student Achievement evaluates performance across all subjects for all students, on both general and alternate assessments; college, career and military readiness indicators; and graduation rates.
School Progress measures district and campus outcomes in two areas:
The number of students that grew at least one year academically (or are on track) as measured by STAAR results
The achievement of all students relative to districts or campuses with similar economically disadvantaged percentages.
Closing the Gaps uses disaggregated data to demonstrate differentials among racial/ethnic groups, socioeconomic backgrounds and other factors.
Find information regarding the rating system.
Changes to STAAR and ratings
As part of the “refreshed” A-F accountability system, both the STAAR exam and the state’s accountability methodology have seen significant changes in recent years. Understanding these changes helps contextualize some of the grade changes campuses will see from 2022 to 2023, and in the coming years.
STAAR: Starting in spring 2023, all Frisco ISD students began taking their STAAR/EOC assessments online, instead of on paper. Other changes included new question types, cross-curricular reading passages and an evidence-based writing assessment. Learn more about the changes. Hybrid scoring was introduced in spring 2024, adding automatic and AI scoring to the human scoring system.
Accountability system: In addition to the significant increase in the CCMR scaling methodology, with the most rigorous increase impacting the Student Achievement Domain, several other changes were made. New calculation and scaling methods were made in both the Academic Growth component of the School Progress Domain and in the Closing the Gaps Domain.
These changes make it harder for a campus to achieve a top grade, even if the data remains the same. For this reason, a side-by-side comparison cannot be made from 2022 to 2023.
Learn more about accountability ratings
TheTXSchools.govwebsite contains interactive accountability rating reports and detailed reports for each district, campus and open-enrollment charter school in the state of Texas.