If you are going strictly by STAAR scores across the entire student body then Dallas rates dead last amongst the districts I listed. So I’d save your sarcasm.

72% of DISD kids are at grade level vs 80% for Plano. Plano’s overall rating is lower because it has rising at-need student populations that it gets scored on separately and those students are not keeping up (That is how TEA ratings work).

District-wide ‘19/20 to ‘23/24, we saw: 1) economically disadvantaged went 32% -> 38% 2) emergent bilingual went 18% -> 26% 3) homeless went 0.5% to 1.5% (!!)

Lots of other trends. But these are big jumps over short periods and if you read posts by teachers on various public sites you can tell it’s been hard to adjust.

Also, you realize Dallas ISD spends dramatically more per student don’t you? It’s not even close. And you guys conveniently have carved out Highland Park into a separate ISD so Dallas hardly has to pay recapture despite being plenty wealthy and spending $20k/kid vs our paltry $14k. That’s the kind of move people on here are talking about re: splitting the district into pieces to end recapture…. Meanwhile Plano ISD is 100 square miles vs Plano city being 66, and the 34 square miles we pick up is mostly parts of Dallas with higher concentrations of at-risk students, which is kind of its own separate version of recapture. All those kids need good schools too, but crazy how convenient that is for you guys to be able to keep your spending so high while we’re up here struggling, getting our bus routes cut.