Texas Works

The Texas Works district oversees 22 small, alternative high schools across Texas, serving a total of just 441 students with an average enrollment of 20 students per campus. The district as a whole ranks in the bottom 2% of all Texas districts, facing significant academic challenges with test scores consistently far below state averages.

While overall performance is low, a few schools show relative strengths. Texasworks - Abilene is the district's highest-ranked school (14th percentile) and earned a 1-star rating, with 40% of students proficient in English II Reading—more than double the district average. Texasworks - Lubbock-Briercroft achieved the district's highest Biology proficiency rate at 57.14%, while Texasworks - San Angelo reached 44.44% in the same subject. Texasworks - San Antonio-Ingram, despite having only 12 students, posted strong scores in U.S. History (50% proficient) and English II Reading (42.86%).

The most critical weakness across the district is Algebra I, where the average proficiency is just 5.36% compared to the state average of 54.03%. English I Reading is also very low at 15.2% proficiency. Interestingly, Biology and U.S. History show slightly better results, suggesting these subjects may have more effective instruction. Seven schools have no test scores reported at all, and socioeconomic data is completely missing, making it difficult to fully understand the challenges these students face. The extremely small class sizes (often under 15:1) do not automatically translate to academic success, indicating that the obstacles these students encounter are profound and not easily overcome by small classes alone.