Mineola and Quitman school districts have been awarded a grade of A by the Texas Education Agency in the results of the school accountability ratings announced this week. Three other local districts came up just shy.

This marks the first ratings released since the state canceled the ratings in 2020 during the start of the pandemic and extended that for 2021, although students did take the state accountability tests for 2021.

Mineola school trustees had already learned that, according to the district’s projections, Mineola would receive an A this year.

Had the agency released ratings last year, those projections also showed Mineola with an A.

The overall score for Mineola ISD was a 93 while Quitman came in with a 91.

Wood County districts receiving a “B” include Alba-Golden (87), Hawkins (88) and Winnsboro (89).

Yantis came in with a “C.”

In addition to the district ratings, campuses are also rated.

Quitman High School was the only campus scoring an A at 90. Mineola High School just missed, recording an 89.

Also with B’s were Winnsboro High School at 87, Hawkins High School 86 and Alba-Golden High School 85. Yantis scored a 71.

Mineola Middle School had an 88 while the middle schools at Quitman had an 82 and Winnsboro 80.

At the lower primary and elementary levels, the Winnsboro campuses had 89 and 84, Quitman 84, Yantis 81, both Mineola campuses 80, Hawkins 78 and Alba-Golden 76.

The district rating is broken into three parts, student achievement, school progress and closing the gaps.

Student achievement has three components, performance on the state test, college, career and military readiness (CCMR) and graduation rate.

While the Mineola test scores were 86, the district was boosted by a 98 for CCMR and 95 graduation rate for an overall 93.

School progress scored 94 which includes academic growth (89) and relative performance (94). The district was scored as an 89 for closing the gaps.

Quitman’s student achievement was 91, led by a 100 graduation rate and 96 CCMR. Test scores were 82.

The district scored 93 on school progress with 93 relative performance and 84 academic growth. The closing the gaps score was 87.

Alba-Golden had an 89 for student achievement with 78 on state tests, 94 for CCMR and 100 graduation rate. The school progress score was 90 with 76 for academic growth and 90 for relative performance. The closing the gaps score was 81.

Yantis had a 72 for student achievement including 74 on the state tests, 55 for CCMR and 100 graduation rate. School progress was rated at 73, which was the academic growth score. The other two categories were not rated.

Winnsboro ISD had a 91 student achievement score with 80 on state tests, 97 for CCMR and 100 graduation rate.

School progress rated a 93 with 76 for academic growth and 93 relative performance. The closing the gaps score of 78 helped keep the district from an A rating.

Hawkins student achievement rated 88 with test performance at 82, CCMR at 93 and graduation rate at 90.

The 91 school progress score included 84 on academic growth and 91 relative performance. The closing the gaps score was 81.