2013-2014 Per-Pupil Funding by Dallas area School District (proposed)

This was in the Dallas Morning News on 5-25-13. This is proposed budget for next year.

'13-'14  Per-pupil funding - School District

$6,505 - Highland Park ISD
$6,360 - Coppell ISD
$6,310 - Sunnyvale ISD
$6,244 - Frisco ISD
$6,232 - Allen ISD
$6,045 - Rockwall ISD

$5,909 - Grapevine-Colleyville ISD
$5,809 - Statewide average
$5,798 - Lewisville ISD
$5,787 - Plano ISD
$5,767 - McKinney ISD
$5,749 - Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD

$5,731 - Arlington ISD
$5,716 - Duncanville ISD
$5,714 - Garland ISD
$5,709 - Fort Worth ISD
$5,706 - HEB ISD
$5,671- Grand Prairie ISD

$5,667 - Cedar Hill ISD
$5,658 - Irving ISD
$5,656 - Mesquite ISD
$5,646 - DeSoto ISD
$5,638 - Lancaster ISD
$5,585 - Dallas ISD
$5,526 - Richardson ISD

2013 Newsweek's List of America's Best High Schools - DFW area

Newsweek/Daily Beast created a list of the top America's public high schools based on their ability to produce college-ready students. They looked at six things: graduation rates, college acceptance rates, AP/IB tests taken per student, average SAT/ACT scores, average AP/IB scores and percent of students enrolled in at least one AP/IB course. There were a total of 2,000 schools on the national list.

National Rank) School (District ISD)

4) Science/Engineering magnet (Dallas ISD)
5) Talented/Gifted magnet (Dallas ISD)
41) Uplift North Hills Prep (charter)
51) Uplift Summit International (charter)
52) Westlake Academy (charter)

63) Plano West (Plano ISD)
86) Highland Park (Highland Park ISD)
117) Plano Sr. (Plano ISD)
168) Southlake Carroll (Carroll ISD)
220) Lovejoy (Lovejoy ISD)

221) Booker T. Performing/Visual Arts magnet (Dallas ISD)
225) Law magnet (Dallas ISD)
246) Harmony Innovation - FW (charter)
265) Coppell (Coppell ISD)
328) Management/Business magnet (Dallas ISD)

330) Flower Mound (Lewisville ISD)
394) Plano East (Plano ISD)
486) Grapevine (Grapevine-Colleyville ISD)
493) Uplift Williams Prep (charter)
501) Education/Social Services magnet (Dallas ISD)

516) FW Academy of Fine Arts (charter)
619) Centennial (Frisco ISD)
661) Health Professions magnet (Dallas ISD)
663) Wakeland (Frisco ISD)
685) Harmony Science Academy (charter)

726) Allen (Allen ISD)
732) Uplift Peak Prep (charter)
859) Uplift Hampton Prep (charter)
868) Richardson (Richardson ISD)
890) Garza Early College (Dallas ISD)

966) Liberty (Frisco ISD)
1009) Marcus (Lewisville ISD)
1044) North (McKinney ISD)
1230) JJ Pearce (Richardson ISD)
1376) Guyer (Denton ISD)

1384) TX Academy of Math & Science (charter)
1422) Newman Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
1447) Berkner (Richardson ISD)
1676) Paschal (Fort Worth ISD)
1699) Singley (Irving ISD)

1762) Lake Highlands (Richardson ISD)
1767) Skyline (Dallas ISD)
1775) MacArthur (Irving ISD)
1798) Denison (Denison ISD)
1859) Hillcrest (Dallas ISD)

1873) Trimble Tech (Fort Worth ISD)
1880) WT White (Dallas ISD)

2013 Best North Texas High Schools according to Children at Risk

The organization Children at Risk reviews and ranks schools, and starting in 2013, gives each school an A-F type grade. This is the high school list. At the the bottom of the list is the criteria Children at Risk considered when scoring the schools.

Rank in North Texas. School (ISD)

Grade - "A"

1. Talend & Gifted magnet (Dallas ISD)
2. Science & Engineering magnet (Dallas ISD)
3. Rangel Women's magnet (Dallas ISD)
4. Health Professions magnet (Dallas ISD)
5. Law magnet (Dallas ISD)

6. Garza Early College magnet (Dallas ISD)
7. Middle College magnet (Dallas ISD)
8. Education/Social Services magnet (Dallas ISD)
9. Highland Park (Highland Park ISD)
10. Uplift North Hills Prep (charter)

11. Business/Management magnet (Dallas ISD)
12. JJ Pearce (Richardson ISD)
13. Booker T. Performing/Visual Arts magnet (Dallas ISD)
14. Early College (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
15. Plano West (Plano ISD)

16. Coppell (Coppell ISD)
17. Lovejoy (Lovejoy ISD)
18. Colleyville Heritage (Grapevine-Colleyville ISD)
19. Plano Sr. (Plano ISD)
20. Westlake Academy (charter)

21. FW Academy of Fine Arts (charter)
22. Hebron (Lewisville ISD)
23. Grapevine (Grapevine-Colleyville ISD)
24. LD Bell (HEB ISD)
25. Plano East (Plano ISD)
26. Allen (Allen ISD)

Grade - "B"

27. Flower Mound (Lewisville ISD)
28. Trinity (HEB ISD)
29. Berkner (Richardson ISD)
30. Marcus (Lewisville ISD)

31. Richardson (Richardson ISD)
32. Liberty (Frisco ISD)
33. Avalon (Avalon ISD)
34. Wolfe City (Wolfe City ISD)
35. Centennial (Frisco ISD)

36. Argyle (Argyle ISD)
37. Universal Academy (charter)
38. Creekview (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
39. Boyd (McKinney ISD)
40. Bland (Bland ISD)

41. Prosper (Prosper ISD)
42. North (McKinney ISD)
43. Frisco (Frisco ISD)
44. Rockwall-Heath (Rockwall ISD)
45. Singley Academy (Irving ISD)

46. McKinney (McKinney)
47. Keller (Keller ISD)
48. Garland (Garland ISD)
49. Rowlett (Garland ISD)
50. Caddo Mills (Caddo Mills ISD)

51. North Garland (Garland ISD)
52. A+ Academy (charter)
53. Poteet (Mesquite ISD)
54. Sachse (Garland ISD)
55. Blue Ridge (Blue Ridge ISD)

56. Grandview (Grandview ISD)
57. Celeste (Celeste ISD)
58. Ponder (Ponder ISD)
59. Celina (Celina ISD)
60. Martin (Arlington ISD)

61. Rockwall (Rockwall ISD)
62. Newman Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
63. Mabank (Mabank ISD)
64. Crandall (Crandall ISD)
65. Horn (Mesquite ISD)

66. Wakeland (Frisco ISD)
67. Birdville (Birdville ISD)
68. Lone Oak (Lone Oak ISD)
69. Paschal (Fort Worth ISD)
70. Ranchview (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)

71. Trimble Tech (Fort Worth ISD)
72. Wylie (Wylie ISD)
73. Forney (Forney ISD)
74. Lake Highlands (Richardson ISD)
75. South Grand Prairie (Grand Prairie ISD)

Grade - "C"

76. Richland (Birdville ISD)
77. Waxahachie (Waxahachie ISD)
78. Pilot Point (Pilot Point ISD)
79. Joshua (Joshua ISD)
80. Maypearl (Maypearl ISD)

81. RL Turner (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
82. Central (Keller ISD)
83. Aubrey (Aubrey ISD)
84. Princeton (Princeton ISD)
85. The Colony (Lewisville ISD)

86. Summit (Mansfield ISD)
87. Guyer (Denton ISD)
88. Mansfield (Mansfield ISD)
89. Campbell (Campbell ISD)
90. West Mesquite (Mesquite ISD)

91. Treetops School International (charter)
92. Castleberry (Castleberry ISD)
93. Fossil Ridge (Keller ISD)
94. Ferris (Ferris ISD)
95. Smith (Keene ISD)

96. WT White (Dallas ISD)
97. Royse City (Royse City ISD)
98. Midlothian (Midlothian ISD)
99. Lake Dallas (Lake Dallas ISD)
100. Palmer (Palmer ISD)

101. Diamond Hill-Jarvis (Fort Worth ISD)
102. Boswell (Eagle Mt-Saginaw ISD)
103. Melissa (Melissa ISD)
104. Godley (Godley ISD)
105. Denton (Denton ISD)

106. Commerce (Commerce ISD)
107. Mesquite (Mesquite ISD)
108. Lewisville (Lewisville ISD)
109. North Crowley (Crowley ISD)
110. North Mesquite (Mesquite ISD)

111. Ryan (Denton ISD)
112. Greenville (Greenville ISD)
113. Kennedale (Kennedale ISD)
114. Timberview (Mansfield ISD)
115. Little Elm (Little Elm ISD)

116. South Garland (Garland ISD)
117. Everman (Everman ISD)
118. Red Oak (Red Oak ISD)
119. Saginaw (Eagle Mt-Saginaw ISD)
120. Northwest (Northwest ISD)

121. Bowie (Arlington ISD)
122. Krum (Krum ISD)
123. Skyline (Dallas ISD)
124. Madison (Dallas ISD)
125. Kaufman (Kaufman ISD)

126. Arlington (Arlington ISD)
127. Macarthur (Irving ISD)
128. Brewer (White Settlement ISD)
129. Rio Vista (Rio Vista ISD)
130. Ennis (Ennis ISD)

131. Nimitz (Irving ISD)
132. Haltom (Birdville ISD)
133. Arlington Heights (Fort Worth ISD)
134. Molina (Dallas ISD)
135. Terrell (Terrell ISD)

136. Naaman Forest (Garland ISD)
137. Italy (Italy ISD)
138. Farmersville (Farmersville ISD)
139. Boles (Boles ISD)
140. Woodrow Wilson (Dallas ISD)

141. Cleburne (Cleburne ISD)
142. Lakeview Centennial (Garland ISD)
143. Adamson (Dallas ISD)
144. Burleson (Burleson ISD)
145. Irving (Irving ISD)

146. Lamar (Arlington ISD)
147. Azle (Azle ISD)
148. Crowley (Crowley ISD)
149. Carter-Riverside (Fort Worth ISD)
150. A Maceo Smith (Dallas ISD)

151. Hillcrest (Dallas ISD)
152. Scurry-Rosser (Scurry-Rosser ISD)
153. Cedar Hill (Cedar Hill ISD)
154. North Side (Fort Worth ISD)
155. Duncanville (Duncanville ISD)

156. Seguin (Arlington ISD)

Grade - "D"

157. Desoto (Desoto ISD)
158. Waxahachie Faith Family (charter)
159. Sanger (Sanger ISD)
160. Western Hills (Fort Worth ISD)

161. Venus (Venus ISD)
162. Grand Prairie (Grand Prairie ISD)
163. Conrad (Dallas ISD)
164. Southwest (Fort Worth ISD)
165. Seagoville (Dallas ISD)

166. Lancaster (Lancaster ISD)
167. Advantage Academy (charter)
168. South Hills (Fort Worth ISD)
169. Thomas Jefferson (Dallas ISD)
170. Carter (Dallas ISD)

171. Alvarado (Alvarado ISD)
172. Community (Community ISD)
173. Bryan Adams (Dallas ISD)
174. Kimball (Dallas ISD)
175. Kemp (Kemp ISD)

176. Lake Worth (Lake Worth ISD)
177. Polytechnic (Fort Worth ISD)

Grade - "F"

178. Phoenix Charter (charter)
179. Ford (Quinlan ISD)
180. Sunset (Dallas ISD)

181. Sam Houston (Arlington ISD)
182. North Dallas (Dallas ISD)
183. Dunbar (Fort Worth ISD)
184. Pinkston (Dallas ISD)
185. Lincoln (Dallas ISD)

186. Roosevelt (Dallas ISD)
187. Samuell (Dallas ISD)
188. Easter Hills (Fort Worth ISD)
189. South Oak Cliff (Dallas ISD)
190. Spruce (Dallas ISD)
191. Wyatt (Fort Worth ISD)


Criteria:

TAKS Commended Reading (5%)

TAKS Commended Math (5%)

Recommended High School Program (2.5%)

Advanced Courses (5%)

AP/IB Test-Takers (5%)

AP/IB Students Passing (5%)

Attendance Rate (7.5%)

Graduation Rate (15%)

SAT/ACT Test-Takers (5%)

Mean SAT Score (5%)

Mean ACT Score (5%)

Percent Economically Disadvantaged (20%)

Reading Gain/Loss (7.5%)

Math Gain/Loss (7.5%)