Public Education Code
§39.072. Accreditation Standards
(a) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to evaluate the performance
of school districts and to assign to each district a performance rating as follows:
(1) exemplary (meets or exceeds state exemplary standards);
(2) recognized (meets or exceeds required improvement and within 10
percent of state exemplary standards);
(3) academically acceptable (below the exemplary and recognized
standards but exceeds the academically unacceptable standards); or
(4) academically unacceptable (below the state clearly unacceptable
performance standard and does not meet required improvement).