In the past two days, Texas schools have received two reports on how they're doing: one from the federal government and one from the state.
Adequate Yearly Progress is part of the national No Child Left Behind Act. More than 200 Texas schools fell short of the federal education standards for the second year in a row.
Now, districts must pay for transportation fees for students who want to transfer to another campus.
Those results are different from the state's in that they count special education students and Limited English Proficient students.
Four of 10 Texas school districts got an exemplary or recognized rating. The Texas Education Agency released this year's accountability ratings on Thursday.
These are the first ratings issued under the state's redesigned accountability system.
"It is much harder to earn the rating of exemplary or recognized under the new system than it was under the old system," Texas Education Commissioner Shirley Neeley said.
There are four ratings: exemplary, recognized, acceptable and unacceptable.
Most districts, like the Austin Independent School District, saw lower ratings. The district was rated Academically Acceptable with seven elementary schools receiving grades of exemplary. TEA also gave 16 campuses a recognized rating and 74 were graded acceptable. Only five got the lowest rating of unacceptable.
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TEA results
The state released its rankings of schools and school districts on Thursday.
 
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The district says low science scores made a big impact.
"We wouldn't have had 23 recognized schools, but if the five cells in science weren't in accountability like they were last year. We would have 57 schools," AISD superintendent Pat Forgione said.
AISD wasn't the only local district with an acceptable rating. Bastrop, Del Valle, Elgin, Georgetown, Hays Consolidated, Pflugerville, San Marcos and Round Rock all received an acceptable rating.
More than 700 districts statewide got this rating -- the highest number of districts under any rating.
The ratings are based on scores on the state's standardized test (the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills), high school completion rates and annual dropout rates.
"Schools can be rated on as many as 36 indicators now that's largely because we have added ninth grade and 11th grade tests and remember we have also added more subjects like science and social studies," Neeley said.
If you have concerns about either report, districts encourage parents to talk to their child's principal to find out exactly why a school failed to meet the criteria.
