The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has identified ECHS as one of 300 campuses across the state as high-performing and/or high-progress Title I schools for 2015-2016. Title I schools are defined as campuses with a student population of at least 40 percent low-income.
The identification of high-performing and/or high-progress is based on statewide reading and mathematics assessments under the State Accountability System in the 2014-2015 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 2015-2016, TEA has identified 160 Texas campuses as high-performing.
School districts and charters with more than one campus identified as high-performing include: Amarillo ISD (3); Brownsville ISD (2); Carroll ISD (4); Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD (3); Dallas ISD (14); Edinburg CISD (9); El Paso ISD (5); Fort Worth ISD (2); Garland ISD (4); Houston ISD (13); IDEA Public Schools (4); KIPP Inc. Charter (2); Los Fresnos CISD (3); Malakoff ISD (2); Sharyland ISD (4); Socorro ISD (5); Uplift Education-Summit International (2); Valley View ISD (3); and Ysleta ISD (2).
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 2014-2015 school year). For 2015-2016, TEA has identified 140 Texas campuses as high-progress.
School districts and charters with more than one campus identified as high-progress include: Alief ISD (2); Amarillo ISD (3); Brownsville ISD (2); Carroll ISD (2); Carrollton-Farmers Branch (2); Conroe ISD (2); Dallas ISD (10); Edinburg CISD (8); El Paso ISD (6); Fort Worth ISD (3); Garland ISD (4); Houston Gateway Academy Inc. (3); Houston ISD (13); IDEA Public Schools (4); KIPP Inc. Charter (2); Los Fresnos CISD (2); San Antonio ISD (2); Sharyland ISD (3); Socorro ISD (3); Valley View ISD (2); and Ysleta ISD (3).
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 complete list of 2015-2016 high-progress and high-performing schools (school districts and campus names) may be viewed on the TEA website at http://tea.texas.gov/Student_Testing_and_Accountability/Monitoring_and_Interventions/School_Improvement_and_Support/Priority,_Focus,_and_Reward_Schools/