Gainesville ISD Score Rises to 69, One Point Under a C

Gainesville ISD's preliminary state accountability score for the 2025–2026 school year rose four points to 69, one point under a C, while Chalmers Elementary and Edison Elementary each moved from an F to a B, the district reported. The Texas Education Agency released the preliminary ratings Aug. 14. TEA's 2026 rating scale places 60 through 69 in the D range and starts a C at 70.

Campus results went in both directions. Chalmers and Edison each gained 28 points in one year, and Gainesville Junior High gained two, the district said. Gainesville Intermediate and Gainesville High School each lost six.

| Campus or district | Change in score |

|---|---:|

| Chalmers Elementary | +28 |

| Edison Elementary | +28 |

| Gainesville ISD overall | +4 |

| Gainesville Junior High | +2 |

| Gainesville Intermediate | −6 |

| Gainesville High School | −6 |

TEA's 2026 school improvement report identifies Gainesville Intermediate for additional targeted support under federal rules and lists this as the first year of that identification.

The district said it would review the preliminary results and file an appeal if it found discrepancies; that statement does not establish that an appeal was filed. TEA set the appeals deadline at 5 p.m. Sept. 11. Agency guidance says successful appeals usually involve data or calculation errors by TEA, a testing contractor or a regional education service center, and generally cannot correct data a district submitted itself. TEA's accountability calendar schedules final 2026 ratings, with final counts of consecutive years of unacceptable performance, for December.

TEA records show Gainesville ISD earned a B in 2022 and a D in 2023, 2024 and 2025, with its accreditation status for 2025–2026 holding at Accredited. The district cautions that the state's 2023 overhaul changed how growth, Closing the Gaps, college readiness and district totals are calculated, which makes the 2023 and 2024 ratings unsuitable for direct comparison with 2022. Litigation moved that calendar. TEA scheduled public release of the 2023 ratings for April 24, 2025, after a ruling by the Fifteenth Court of Appeals, with the 2024 ratings then awaiting a separate decision.

In the same 2026 cycle, TEA gave Callisburg ISD a preliminary overall score of 78, a C, and its high school the district's highest campus score, 87. TEA records show Muenster ISD earned A ratings in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and Lindsay ISD moved from B ratings in 2023 and 2024 to an A in 2025. Statewide, TEA reported that about one district in four and about one campus in four improved on last year's rating, and that roughly 85 percent of campuses with an A–F rating earned at least a C, the level the agency counts as acceptable academic performance.

Campus results feed the district rating in proportion to enrollment in grades 3 through 12, Gainesville ISD explains in its required accountability posting. TEA's 2025 comparison group for Gainesville High School, the schools the agency treats as similar, included campuses in Diboll, Sealy and Marble Falls; the Gainesville entry listed 875 students, a little over half of them economically disadvantaged.