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Dallas Fort Worth Elementary Schools

This page presents complete rankings of 1,184 DFW public elementary schools in order of their 2019 cumulative raw unrounded score for all State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests administered during the 2018-2019 school year. The top DFW open enrollment elementary schools, top DFW selective enrollment elementary schools and top charter elementary schools are listed on this best Dallas elementary schools page.

Unlike some other Dallas elementary school rankings, this analysis examines only the most current academic performance data available and no consideration is given to student demographics, changes in student performance over time on the STAAR tests, and other such factors or to subjective factors such as anonymous self-selected reviews and statistically invalid online opinion surveys.

2020 DFW public elementary schools rankings

As described in the Texas Education Agency 2019 Accountability Manual , the STAAR scores shown in the table below are calculated by first adding equal weightings of the percentage of assessments on which students’ performance mastered grade level, met grade level and approached grade level, dividing the sum by 3 and rounding it to the nearest whole percentage. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) refers to this as the raw STAAR component score. This raw score is then adjusted or “scaled” by using a conversion table to align letter grades and raw component scores of all Texas public school districts and campuses.

Because the precision of the scaled STAAR star is significantly diminished by this process, the raw STAAR component score is used in this analysis to construct an academic performance index that indicates the relative performance of each Texas elementary and intermediate school. Each school also has been assigned an academic performance score based on its relative position in the academic performance index. The top 10 percent of Texas elementary schools included in this study received an academic performance score of 10, elementary schools in the next lower, ninth decile received a score of 9, and so on.

Using the sort and search capabilities of the interactive table shown below, it is easy to answer questions such as ...

• Based on overall student performance on the STAAR evaluations, which are the best Dallas ISD elementary schools?
  Enter "dallas isd" in the Search box and click on the "academic performance index" column heading.
  
  
• How significant really are the academic performances differences at various campuses?