Accountability & School Improvement

The A-F Estimator is now available in the TEA Login (TEAL) Accountability application. TEAL users are now able to access the A-F estimator in the “New Items” tab or by looking in the Performance Reporting tab under “2026 Accountability” within TEAL.

This A-F Estimator tool enables the calculation and estimation of a district or campus's performance in each domain and overall ratings. The estimator prepopulates domain and component values using 2025 results. Users can enter new component values to estimate the corresponding domain and overall results for 2026 accountability. The accuracy and validity of the estimation depend solely on the data input by the user.

For districts that have at least one campus rated under AEA criteria, an AEA-specific A-F Estimator is also available in TEAL.

The A–F Estimator tool will soon be available to the public, allowing users outside of the TEAL system to calculate and estimate district or campus accountability ratings. The estimator will prepopulate domain and component values using 2025 results, and users will be able to enter new component values to estimate the corresponding domain and overall results for 2026 accountability.

Districts now have additional data with which to plan for the 2025-26 school year. In the 2025 Accountability Reports, under the Closing the Gaps Domain Rating and Scores, users will see the campus’s two lowest-performing Race/Ethnic groups used in Domain 3 calculations for both 2025 and 2026 ratings. This information will also be available on the TEA Login (TEAL) Accountability application.

This additional data tool can be used to inform planning for the groups that will be evaluated in Closing the Gaps for 2026 and is based on 2025 results.

In the example shown above, the groups evaluated for 2025 accountability are in bold and were 1) All students 2) African American 3) Hispanic, and 4) High Focus. Based on this school’s 2 lowest performing groups in 2025, the groups evaluated in 2026 will be 1) All students 2) African American 3) Two or More Races, and 4) High Focus.

The School/District Comparison Power BI report is now updated. This report, just one of the Analytics Tools suite on TXschools.gov, can be used to compare up to three schools or districts. Users can toggle to either review Accountability Rating and STAAR performance, or to compare school profile and demographics information.

Here is an example of the performance comparison for three Texas school districts:

Along with an example of the profile comparison for three Texas school districts:

As a reminder, the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) Interim Assessments Window 1 (mathematics and reading language arts) and Window 2 (science and social studies) open on October 13, 2025. Testing personnel may create test sessions in the Test Administrator Interface of the Test Delivery System (TDS) and may order paper and braille test materials, as needed.

The updated STAAR Interim Assessments Educator Guide and the data file format are available on the STAAR Interim Assessments web page.

The 2025-26 academic accountability data sources PEIMS fall-submission resource guide is now available! This guide presents a chart that provides the 2024-2025 TSDS PEIMS data sources and accepted values for College, Career, and Military Readiness (CCMR) indicators used in A-F Accountability collected during the 2025-2026 PEIMS Fall Submission, alongside their accompanying reports. This resource outlines CCMR Accountability data sources for the 2025-2026 PEIMS Fall Submission only. CCMR incorporates multiple data points from different collections.

TEA Performance Reporting invites all stakeholders to learn more about the 2028 A-F Refresh through the Refresh Roadshow (four-part webinar series). Slide deck resources and recordings will be posted on the Accountability System Development webpage following each part of the series.

Registration is open for Part 3.

Part 3: Proposed Changes to Domain 3, Specific to Campus Ratings in Closing the Gaps

• October 21, 2025 (9 am-10 am)
• October 22, 2025 (3 pm-4 pm)

Part 4: Propose Changes to Domain 3, Specific to Results-Driven Accountability Integration

• December 9, 2025
• December 10, 2025

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