Frisco ISD 2007 Grades 3-11 Student Performance

In this article, I want to examine student academic performance for the majority of our grade levels. The only way to truly understand our performance is to compare our results with the results of similar districts using the same assessment instruments. In this case, it is the state defined TAKS tests.

For the data analysis, I chose districts who adjoined our borders. This will give us a lot of size variance (Plano versus Prosper), but it should also give us a certain commonality of students. The districts that we will compare against include:

• Prosper
• Little Elm
• Allen
• Denton
• McKinney
• Lewisville
• Plano

As you can see from the table below, Frisco ISD led in four of the six categories when it came to the accountability performance and was within one percentage point in one other category. It is pretty easy to see that Frisco ISD performed well in this assessment. However, most of the North Texas Students performed well at this level.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) also releases a Commended Performance rating for each district based on the percentage of students achieving a "Commended" rating on TAKS. As a whole, Frisco ISD led in three of the six categories and was within one percentage point in two other categories. There is more of a spread on these results and it is pretty easy to see that Frisco ISD performed extremely well in this assessment.

2007 TAKS Grades 3-11, Accountability Performance	Frisco	Prosper	Little Elm	Allen	Denton	McKinney	Lewisville	Plano
All Students Mathematics Rate	92	90	78	92	78	89	90	92
All Students Science Rate	88	86	68	89	75	86	84	90
All Students Social Studies Rate	97	97	90	98	89	95	96	97
All Students Reading/ELA Rate	97	96	90	97	90	95	95	96
All Students Writing Rate	98	96	92	98	94	96	96	96
All Students All Tests Rate	89	85	70	88	72	85	84	88
2007 TAKS Grades 3-11, Commended Performance	Frisco	Prosper	Little Elm	Allen	Denton	McKinney	Lewisville	Plano
All Students Mathematics Rate	46	44	24	43	25	45	37	47
All Students Science Rate	37	32	18	32	21	33	26	37
All Students Social Studies Rate	61	52	28	63	36	54	50	68
All Students Reading/ELA Rate	50	42	31	48	34	47	45	50
All Students Writing Rate	53	54	24	51	34	47	43	48
All Students All Tests Rate	29	25	13	26	14	28	22	29

- Frisco leads the category
- Frisco within one percentage point of the lead

To see details by sub-group, try the following links:

• Accountability
• Commmended

-- Richard Beaver - 2008