Howe ISD Has Three Campuses. They Earned Three Different Grades.

Howe ISD is small enough that its entire accountability report fits in three lines, and this year each line is different.

Howe High School earned a B with a score of 86. Howe Middle School earned a C at 75. Summit Hill Elementary earned a D at 68.

The district's overall rating from the Texas Education Agency is a C, with a score of 77.

A straight line by age

Three campuses producing three consecutive grades is a pattern rarely visible in larger districts, where dozens of schools blur into averages. In Howe it is the whole picture, and it runs in one direction: the younger the students, the lower the rating.

The domains

Howe scored 78 in student achievement and 75 in school progress, both C ratings, with closing the gaps at 74, also a C.

The district's weakest measure is academic growth at 66, a D. That figure asks whether students improved on their own prior performance, and a D suggests the answer across the district was not consistently yes.

What scale means here

Howe ISD enrolls 1,191 students. It is among the smallest districts in our coverage, and small districts face a particular version of this problem: with one campus per level, there is no internal comparison, no second elementary school performing differently to learn from.

It also means change is visible quickly. A single campus improving would move the district's overall number in a way that would take years in a district of 60 schools.

Campus reports are published at TXSchools.gov.

Source: Texas Education Agency.

Sources

https://txschools.gov/

https://tea.texas.gov/about-tea/newsroom/tea-releases-2026-f-accountability-ratings-on-txschools-gov