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The Texas Education Agency released elementary and middle school state assessment results Friday, showing that Coastal Bend and Corpus Christi students performed either similarly to or slightly below ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accelerate Learning today announces the publication of a new study examining the 2014-15 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) passing rates for school ...

Out of the district's 59 elementary campuses, Pope and McGown elementaries were the only schools in Cy-Fair ISD to see their fifth graders on average master all three subjects on this year’s STAAR ...