{"id":338480,"date":"2025-10-28T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/338480\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:51:09","slug":"this-dallas-middle-school-ranks-no-1-in-texas-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/338480\/","title":{"rendered":"This Dallas middle school ranks No. 1 in Texas for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen Dallas-Fort Worth elementary and middle schools have excelled on U.S. News and World Report&#8217;s just-released list of the best K-8 schools in Texas for 2026, with one that&#8217;s first in class: The No. 1 best middle school in Texas is Dallas ISD&#8217;s <strong>William B. Travis Academy\/Vanguard for the Academically Talented and Gifted<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The school also ranked as the 4th best elementary school statewide.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/k12?src=usn_pr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 Best Elementary and Middle Schools rankings<\/a> compared over 81,000 public schools on the state and district level using publicly available data from the U.S. Department of Education. Schools were analyzed based on their students&#8217; proficiencies in mathematics and reading, and their performances on state assessments for both subjects. Tiebreakers were decided based on which school had higher overall proficiencies, and a second tiebreaker was determined for whichever school had a lower student-teacher ratio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best Texas elementary schools for 2026<br \/><\/strong>Two Dallas-area schools made it among the top 10 best Texas elementary schools for 2026. In addition to William B Travis Academy, <strong>Sudie L. Williams Talented and Gifted Academy<\/strong> rose into the statewide top five best elementary schools for 2026, moving up one spot after ranking No. 6 last year. The academy also jumped up two spots to rank as the No. 3 best middle school in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>One North Texas school made a major leap into the statewide top 25 for 2026: <strong>Walnut Grove Elementary<\/strong> in Southlake&#8217;s Carroll ISD moved up 15 spots from last year to land as the 19th best Texas elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Walnut Grove Elementary, 88 percent of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 91 percent scored at or above that level for reading,&#8221; the school&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/k12\/texas\/walnut-grove-elementary-251015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. News profile<\/a> says. &#8220;The student-teacher ratio is 14:1, which is better than that of the district.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The other Dallas-Fort Worth schools that appeared among the top 25 best elementary schools in Texas include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>No. 11 \u2013 Overton Park Elementary, Fort Worth ISD (up from No. 12 last year)<\/li>\n<li>No. 12 \u2013 School for the Talented and Gifted in Pleasant Grove, Dallas ISD (up from No. 17 last year)<\/li>\n<li>No. 14 \u2013 Lakewood Elementary, Dallas ISD (down from No. 11 last year)<\/li>\n<li>No. 17 \u2013 Robert H. Rockenbaugh Elementary, Carroll ISD (down from No. 9 last year) <\/li>\n<li>No. 18 \u2013 Old Union Elementary, Southlake, Carroll ISD (down from No. 14 last year)<\/li>\n<li>No. 21 \u2013 Carroll Elementary, Southlake, Carroll ISD (unchanged from last year)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The best Texas middle schools<\/strong><br \/>In a shining achievement for Dallas-Fort Worth, nine local middle schools ranked among the statewide 10 best for 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lawler Middle School <\/strong>in Frisco ISD ranked as the 4th best Texas middle school for 2026, one spot lower than its 2025 ranking. It appeared behind No. 1-ranking William B<strong>. <\/strong>Travis Academy, T.H. Rogers School in Houston ISD (No. 2), and Dallas ISD&#8217;s Sudie L. Williams (No. 3).<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top 10 are <strong>George Dawson Middle<\/strong> <strong>School<\/strong> in Carroll ISD (No. 5), Dallas ISD&#8217;s <strong>School for the Talented &amp; Gifted in Pleasant Grove <\/strong>(No. 6), <strong>Carroll Middle School<\/strong> in Carroll ISD (No. 7), <strong>Willow Springs Middle School<\/strong> in Lovejoy ISD (No. 8), and <strong>Henry W. Longfellow Career Exploration Academy<\/strong> in Dallas ISD (No. 9).<\/p>\n<p>Other Dallas-Fort Worth middle schools that were ranked among the 25 best in Texas are:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>No. 14 \u2013 Fowler Middle School, Plano, Frisco ISD (unchanged from last year)<\/li>\n<li>No. 15 \u2013 Nelson Middle School, Frisco ISD (up from No. 20 last year)<\/li>\n<li>No. 16 \u2013 George B. Dealey Montessori Academy (up from No. 35 last year)<\/li>\n<li>No. 17 \u2013 Rice Middle School, Plano ISD (up from No. 34 last year)<\/li>\n<li>No. 23 \u2013 Uplift Education-North Hills Prep Middle School, Irving (up from No. 43 last year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The 2026 Best Elementary and Middle Schools rankings highlight institutions that excel in fostering student achievement and providing exceptional learning environments for all,&#8221; said U.S. News managing editor for education LaMont Jones, Ed.D. in a press release. &#8220;These rankings offer communities and families valuable insights into schools dedicated to preparing students for future success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a dozen Dallas-Fort Worth elementary and middle schools have excelled on U.S. News and World Report&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":338481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,16213,113236,167147,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,10544,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-338480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-isd","11":"tag-elementary-schools","12":"tag-middle-schools","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-us-news","21":"tag-us-news-world-report","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115452122590332666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}