metroid_84 said:
I am not impacted by the district changes, living on the north side of town close to Bryan, but isn't balancing student populations critical to a lot more than just student funding, but also just retaining control of the school district itself? If any individual campus gets F ratings for five years in a row, Texas can come in and take over the school district.
Add onto that that students from lower income households often perform worse on average than kids than higher-income households, and yeah, in a town where most of the low-income students live on one side. Like I am not surprised to see how much bits of neighborhoods close to College Hills are sent to other schools as its lower income. Even with all that, College Hills Elementary received F ratings on all categories - student achievement, school progress and 'closing the gaps' on the most recenty released STAAR tests, and so a takeover can be initiated if that continues for another four years.
I don't have data to show but I would like to see what grades would be when we looked at students that had been at the same elementary school from K-4. High transient populations could greatly skew a schools grade when you just look at scores of tests taken by the "current students" and may not accurately convey the "effectiveness" of a school...