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).