Last Friday, both Ray High School and CCISD earned a B in the 2024-25 Texas Education Agency (TEA) accountability Ratings.
This is an improvement of six points for both RHS and CCISD from the previous 2023-24 school year, receiving scores of 83 and 81, respectively.
RHS also earned five out of seven distinctions, earning the “Top 25 Percent: Comparative Closing the Gaps” distinction in addition to the four distinctions it had already earned in previous years for academic achievement in reading, mathematics, science, and social studies.
“I’m very satisfied with the hard work our teachers and students put in,” RHS Principal Roxanne Cuevas commented.
The school and district saw these improvements amid significant changes to accountability rating criteria, resulting in lawsuits that delayed the release of the 2022–23 ratings until May 2025 and the 2023–24 ratings until August 2025 — only after a state appeals court ruled the ratings could be released last month.
The bump in the rating can be primarily attributed to the large increase in the ‘Closing the Gaps’ category, which measures how well a school ensures that all student groups are successful. RHS saw a 16-point jump in this area compared to the 2023-24 school year.
Principal Cuevas suggested one reason for the growth was the focus on preparing students for post-graduation success.
“I do think we definitely spent a lot of time on our college, career, and military readiness component. We definitely had a lot of work placed into being TSI-ready and also in AP, IB, and OnRamps. So all of that encompassed our work in the Closing the Gaps section,” she said.
“Also, we worked on industry-based certification (for students), which is done through some of the CTE classes, for instance, in the construction classes, they need to be (National Center for Construction Education and Research) certified,” Cuevas added.
