2024–2025 School Ratings: How Cooke County-Area Districts Scored

Four of the 14 school districts in and around Cooke County earned A grades on the state's newest school report cards, and Gainesville ISD received the area's only D, according to 2025 accountability records the Texas Education Agency released Aug. 15. The ratings, which cover the 2024-25 school year, are the state's district-by-district measure of how local schools performed.

TEA's district summary gives the A's to Sivells Bend ISD, Era ISD, Muenster ISD and Lindsay ISD. Sanger ISD, Collinsville ISD and Tioga ISD took B's. Six districts landed at C: S&S Consolidated ISD, Pilot Point ISD, Callisburg ISD, Whitesboro ISD, Walnut Bend ISD and Cooke County's Valley View ISD, which state records list separately from other Texas districts that share its name. Overall scores in the group ran from Gainesville's 65 to Sivells Bend's 94.

| District | 2025 grade | Overall score | STAAR, Approaches or above |

| --- | :---: | :---: | :---: |

| Sivells Bend ISD | A | 94 | 87% |

| Era ISD | A | 91 | 81% |

| Muenster ISD | A | 91 | 90% |

| Lindsay ISD | A | 90 | 88% |

| Tioga ISD | B | 87 | 81% |

| Sanger ISD | B | 82 | 79% |

| Collinsville ISD | B | 82 | 77% |

| S&S Consolidated ISD* | C | 78 | 73% |

| Pilot Point ISD | C | 77 | 71% |

| Walnut Bend ISD | C | 76 | 61% |

| Callisburg ISD | C | 75 | 74% |

| Whitesboro ISD | C | 74 | 78% |

| Valley View ISD (Cooke County) | C | 70 | 68% |

| Gainesville ISD | D | 65 | 59% |

*Listed in TEA records as S AND S CISD. Source: Texas Education Agency, 2025 district accountability summary and STAAR district table, all students, all subjects.

The testing results behind the grades follow a similar pattern. TEA's 2025 STAAR tables show roughly nine of every ten tests in Muenster reached the state's Approaches Grade Level standard or better, with Lindsay and Sivells Bend close behind. In Gainesville, about six in ten tests cleared that mark, the lowest share among the 14 districts, and Walnut Bend, rated C overall, sat near the same level on the testing table. Statewide, TEA reported that three of every four tests counted for accountability met the standard, out of more than eight million STAAR assessments taken during the school year.

The area's grades improved from the year before. Five local districts earned higher letter grades than in 2024: Sivells Bend, Era and Lindsay each rose from B to A, Sanger climbed from C to B, and Valley View moved from D to C, TEA's records for both years show. Gainesville held at D for a second year, its overall score up one point from 2024. The local gains track the state as a whole; TEA said about a quarter of districts and just under a third of campuses statewide raised their letter grade this year, while a smaller share of campuses declined.

Families are getting two years of grades at once. TEA said it published the delayed 2024 ratings the same day as the 2025 results, after legal proceedings had kept the earlier set from release. The A-F system comes from House Bill 22, passed by the Legislature in 2017, and grades schools in the areas the agency calls Student Achievement, School Progress and Closing the Gaps.

An A remained uncommon across Texas. Of the nearly 1,200 school systems the agency evaluated this year, roughly one in seven earned the top mark, and B was the most common grade, according to TEA's statewide summary.

The grades are now settled. In a December notice, TEA said the 2024 and 2025 ratings became final after appeals closed, and that a successful appeal changes only the rating and the affected domain scores, not the underlying data. School systems that receive federal Title I money must distribute the 2024-25 federal report cards to campuses, parents and the public within 90 days of notice and keep the links posted for at least three years, the agency said.