Three Schools Receive State Academic Recognition

by Ronnie Zamora/LFCISD

The Texas Education Agency has identified three Los Fresnos CISD schools as high-performing and/or high-progress Title I schools for 2015-16.
Title I schools are defined as campuses with a student population of at least 40 percent low-income.

Three schools, or 21 percent, were named as high-performing schools. All were elementary schools – Olmito Elementary, Rancho Verde Elementary and Dora Romero Elementary.

Olmito Elementary and Rancho Verde Elementary were also named as high-performing schools.

The identification of high-performing and/or high-progress Title I schools is a part of the state’s conditional waiver from the U.S. Department of Education for specific provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001). The identification of high-performing and/or high-progress is based on statewide reading and mathematics assessments under the State Accountability System in the 2013-2014 school year and graduation rates.

A high-performing reward school is identified as a Title I school with distinctions based on reading and math performance, as well as the highest graduation rates at the high school level. For 2015-16, TEA has identified 160 Texas campuses as high-performing.

A high-progress reward school is identified as a Title I school in the top 25 percent in annual improvement and/or a school in the top 25 percent of those demonstrating ability to close performance gaps (based on state accountability system safeguards in the 2013-2014 school year). For 2015-16, TEA has identified 140 Texas campuses as high-progress.

The identification of high-performing and/or high-progress Title I schools is a part of the state’s conditional waiver from the U.S. Department of Education for specific provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001).