Schools · Farmers Branch

Farmers Branch, TX schools

Kids attend one of 5 schools through grade 6, then FIELD MIDDLE and EARLY COLLEGE H S.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

CSchool Grade #403Best schools in TX (of 583)#271Highest graduation rate in TX (of 584)

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Farmers Branch’s School Grade: C

The public schools Farmers Branch’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 69% of Texas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

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Texas school districts we grade (1,185)Better than 31%

Lower resultsHigher results

Texas towns with similar household incomes (506)Better than 17%

High confidence. Built on 78,217 tested students and a graduating class of 9,541; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Texas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2019.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Texas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Texas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.