Princeton ISD's 2026 accountability report has a shape almost no district produces. Its campuses cluster at two ends, with nothing in the middle.
Of 15 rated campuses, one earned an A, nine earned a B and five earned a D. Not one earned a C.
What that looks like
Clark Middle School led the district with a 90, an A. Southard Middle School scored 89 and Lovelady High School 88, both B ratings.
The five D campuses are all elementary schools: Godwin Elementary at 68, Mayfield Elementary at 67 and James Elementary at 66 among them.
Most districts produce a bell curve, with the largest group of campuses in the middle. Princeton's distribution is bimodal, and the split runs almost cleanly along grade level, with secondary campuses in the B range and elementary campuses in the D range.
The district grade
Princeton earned a B overall with a score of 81, which is higher than its student achievement score of 79, a C.
That gap is explained by school progress, where the district scored 82, a B. The system is improving faster than its raw achievement numbers alone would suggest, and that improvement is what pulled the overall rating up.
