State rates Beaumont ISD campuses

Students aren’t the only ones sporting recently released grades this month, with school districts statewide also in receipt of earned scores kicking off 2023.

Posting mostly failing grades for the 28 campuses under the auspices of the Beaumont Independent School District (BISD), the Texas Education Agency issued results of the state review for the school year ending in 2022 the week of Jan. 19.

BISD’s two large high schools are both unrated for the review year, failing to meet designated metrics in student achievement and school progress. Boasting a student body just 10% of each of the two larger campuses, BISD’s Early College High School was the only secondary school in Beaumont to achieve an A ranking in the state review.

Beaumont’s pre-K and alternative high school campuses also scored poorly, none earning a designation for the 2022 school year. Only one middle school in the district – Odom Academy, which serves the district’s gifted and talented “Pegasus” program students – earned a rating; Vincent, Marshall, MLK, and Smith all went unrated for the year due to failing to score at least 70% on performance metrics.

By campus, each reported:

Amelia Elementary  – overall B

Beaumont Early College High School – 293 students, overall A

Beaumont Elementary DAEP (New an alternative school for elementary students) –7 students, Not Rated

Beaumont United High School – 2,117 students, Not Rated, with every measure failing to meet standard

Bingman Pre-K – 452 students, Not Rated due to scores failing to meet 70% in any metric

Blanchette Elementary – 523 students, overall B rating

Caldwood Elementary – 516 students, overall C rating

Charlton-Pollard Elementary –501 students, overall B rating

Curtis Elementary – 521 students, overall A rating

Dishman Elementary – 514 students, overall C rating

Dr. Mae E. Jones Clark Elementary – 490 students, Not Rated due to poor achievement marks in all metrics

Fehl-Price Elementary – 452 students, Not Rated due to poor achievement marks in all metrics

Fletcher Elementary – 457 students, overall B rating

Guess Elementary – 566 students, overall B rating

Homer Drive Elementary – 584 students, overall C rating

Jefferson County Youth Detention, four students, Not Rated

Lucas Pre-K – 215 students, Not Rated due to poor achievement marks in all metrics

ML King Middle School – 566 students, Not Rated due to poor achievement marks in all metrics

Marshall Middle School – 757 students, Not Rated due to poor achievement marks in all metrics

Martin Elementary – 511 students, overall B rating

Odom Academy Middle School – 724 students, overall B rating – with an A rating in “school progress”

Pathways Learning Center – 88 students, Not Rated

Paul A. Brown Alternative Center – 98 students, Not Rated due to poor performance on all metrics – the “closing the gaps” score just 30 out of a possible 100 points.

Pietzsch/MacArthur Elementary – 982 students, Not Rated due to poor achievement marks in all metrics

Regina Howell Elementary – 678 students, overall B rating, with an A rating in “school progress”

Smith Middle School – 538 students, Not Rated due to poor performance scores on all metrics

Vincent Middle School – 789 students, Not Rated due to poor performance, although the campus did rate a C in “closing the gaps”

West Brook Sr. High School – 2,256 students, Not Rated due to poor performance, although the campus did rate a C in “closing the gaps”

According to the TEA, the purpose of the School Report Cards is to inform parents and guardians about a campus’ individual characteristics and its academic performance. Now that the reports are available, according to the TEA, districts are now required to distribute the reports to parents and guardians.

“Each campus must send a copy … to a parent or guardian of each of its students within six weeks of the date of this letter,” TEA informed districts Jan. 19.