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Dallas Suburbs With Best Schools

The Dallas suburbs with best schools analysis presented on this page ranks the 2016-2017 school year performance of public schools that serve cities and towns located in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. The metrics on which these rankings are based are the composite student achievement indexes and college readiness indexes of the high schools, middle schools and elementary schools that serve each of these cities and towns.

Dallas suburbs with 2018 best public schools

Shown below shows the composite student achievement indexes and college readiness indexes of public schools that serve each of the 116 Dallas suburbs listed below. Also shown are the composite indexes for the schools in each school district that serves the city/town. This data is presented in a table can be sorted by clicking on the column headings. You also can limit the data display to a city/town or school district by typing the name of a city/town or school district in the Search box.

Sources: Texas Education Agency and North Texas Real Estate Information Systems Inc.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) refers to the percentage of total State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) for all subjects that meet or exceed TEA achievement standards as the student achievement index. The college readiness index used in this analysis was based on participation in and successful completion of high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses and and performance on SAT and ACT college admission tests. A more in-depth description of how this Dallas suburbs with best public school ranking was produced is provided in the Methodology section at the bottom of this page.

Not included in this analysis were factors that generally have no meaningful linkage to the learning success of individual students, such as graduation rates and changes in student performance on the STAAR evaluations from one year to the next, and subjective factors sometimes relied upon in other published rankings, such as opinions of self-selected contributors of anonymous parent and student reviews and "expert insights" regarding teacher quality.

Additional, more detailed analyses that rank the more than 1,600 Dallas area public high schools, middle schools and elementary schools operated by the districts included in this analysis and compare campus student achievement indexes, STAAR results and TEA accountability ratings are available on these best DFW high schools, best DFW middle schools and best DFW elementary schools pages. Lists of the top ranked high schools, middle schools and elementary schools are shown on this best Dallas schools page. Schools with the highest student achievement across all grade levels are identified on this best DFW schools k-12 page.

Methodology

Within each evaluation category, the top ranked city or town was awarded the maximum points allocated to that category and all other cities and towns were awarded a proportional number of points based on how their individual scores compared to the score of the top ranked suburb. Scores from both evaluation categories were then added together to arrive at the city/town's total ranking score.

Performance on STAAR tests: 60 points

A maximum of 60 points was awarded based on the percentage of a city/town's students meeting the TEA's achievement standards on the STAAR reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies subject assessments. As mentioned above, the TEA refers to the percentage of total number of student assessments for all subjects tested that met or exceeded its achievement standards for campuses and districts as their student achievement indexes.

College readiness indicators: 40 points

A maximum of 20 points was awarded based on percentage of students in grades 11-12 participating and successfully completing AP/IB courses. The high schools with the highest percentage of students taking and passing College Board AP examinations or IB examinations in English language arts, mathematics, science and social studies was awarded the maximum points for each subject area category. A maximum of 20 points also was awarded to the district with the highest adjusted SAT and ACT scores (percentage of seniors taking SAT and/or ACT college entrance exams times median subject area test scores). The college readiness index for each district was calculated by aggregating the scores for all high schools in the district, weighted by the number of students attending each school. For this particular analysis, the maximum college readiness score attainable by a high school was 100 points. A complete description of the college readiness evaluation methodology used in both this and the Dallas area high schools ranking studies, along with the AP, IB, SAT and ACT data used in these analyses, is provided on this DFW high schools page.

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