Area schools make list of failing public schools

The Texas Education Agency announced the schools that have been designated on the Public Education Grant list. The PEG list is one measure the state uses to identify struggling campuses.
Of the more than 8,300 public schools in Texas, 1,532 of them were placed on the current list. The number eclipses the 1,119 schools on last year’s list by more than four hundred.
In 1995, the Texas Legislature created the Public Education Grant (PEG) program (TEC §§29.201 - 29.205). The PEG program permits parents whose children attend schools on the PEG list to request that their children transfer to schools in other districts. A list of PEG-designated schools is provided to districts annually.
By Feb. 1, districts must notify each parent of a student in the district assigned to attend a school on the PEG list. Parents may then request a transfer for the following school year. The requested district does not have to accept all PEG transfers, but must follow the same protocols they follow for evaluating non-PEG requests for transfers from other districts. For example, they may restrict transfers by using a first-come-first-served system, and deny further requests for lack of space. Districts are not allowed to discriminate on a basis of academic achievement or special education needs. The PEG-list school cannot deny a student the right to request a transfer.
Student eligibility for PEG transfers is based on assignment to attend a PEG-listed campus in their district of residence. Student eligibility expires upon any of the following conditions:
• Completion of all grades on the campus upon which eligibility was originally based (the PEG-listed campus)
•Removal of the campus from the PEG List
• Assignment of the student to a campus that is not on the PEG List as a result of redrawn attendance boundaries or the student moves into a different attendance area
However, even if any of the above conditions are true, a receiving district is permitted to continue to treat a student as PEG eligible if the student has not yet completed all grades on the campus to which the student transferred during the eligibility period. This means the receiving district can continue to receive PEG funding for this student, if the student chooses to continue attending his/her new school.
Schools are listed as a PEG school if their STAAR passing rates are less than or equal to 50 percent in any two of the preceding years: 2013, 2014 and 2015 or if the school was rated Improvement Required. No state accountability ratings were issued in 2012. A school can remain on the PEG list for up to three years, even if the campus received a rating of "Met Standard" in the most recent year.
Area schools who were designated as a PEG school are as follows: