Ft. Worth TEA Information

The Texas Education Agency assigns accountability ratings to every public school and district in the state. As a public charter school, Richard Milburn Academy is evaluated according to TEA's guidelines for alternative eduction accountability. RMA is currently rated "academically unacceptable" according to these guidelines.

What the TEA rating means
Part of our mission at RMA is ensuring that all students meet the state educational standards set by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). At least 40 percent of our students must achieve a passing rate on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), the state standardized test, for our school to be rated “academically acceptable” by the TEA. Additionally, specific categories of students have certain standards that they must meet to ensure a school is rated academically acceptable. If a school fails to meet just one of these specific standards, as RMA did, it will be considered academically unacceptable.

In 2006/2007, 83 percent of our students earned passing TAKS scores. Our passing percentage is more than double the 40 percent that TEA requires. However, we were rated unacceptable because one of our sub-categories of students exceeded a TEA-determined maximum. In addition to meeting TEA's minimum percent-passing standard, schools must also meet dropout rate standards. According to TEA, no more than 10 percent of the student population or a subset of the student population may drop out. Richard Milburn Academy's overall dropout rate was 7.9 percent for the 2004/2005 school year, the year being measured for the accountability rating. Unfortunately, 15.2 percent of African American students enrolled at RMA dropped out that year, pushing us past the 10 percent maximum dropout rate allowed by TEA.

Though the school more than met the overall TAKS passing standard of 40 percent and had an acceptable overall dropout rate, missing that one benchmark prevented us from earning an acceptable rating. Being rated academically acceptable is important to us, and we will work during the 2006/2007 school year to earn that rating next year.

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TEA Reports
2005/2006 Report Card
2005/2006 AEIS Report
2006/2007 Accountability Report

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