Palisades’s public schools beat 89% of Texas districts
The public schools Palisades’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 89% of Texas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
Palisades’s schools, in brief
Strong results on a lean budget
Palisades spends 22% less per student than the state average. Even so, its schools beat 89% of Texas districts. Test scores ↓
Which school depends on your street
With ten elementary, three middle and three high schools, the school a child attends depends on your address. Elementary grades range from B to A, so it’s worth checking the specific school, not just the town. See the path ↓
This summary is written from the data on this page. Test scores are from 2020–21, a pandemic year, so treat small gaps with caution.
How Palisades compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Texas’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2019.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Texas only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so 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.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Palisades.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
How students score
Every school in Palisades
0 schools. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.
Parents talk
What Palisades families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Palisades
There’s no college in Palisades, but 2 are within 30 miles. The closest is West Texas A & M University in Canyon, 8.3 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Palisades. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Texas. Stars are from neighbors.