Katy ISD outlines five-year House Bill 3 targets for third-grade literacy, math and CCMR

Katy ISD staff presented the district’s House Bill 3 five-year goals and campus targets Monday, showing district-level and subgroup performance baselines and targets for third-grade reading and math and the high school College, Career and Military Readiness (CCMR) indicator.

Natalie Martinez, executive director of school improvement, explained that House Bill 3 links K–12 checkpoints (third grade and high school CCMR) to the statewide 60-by-30 goal. For third-grade reading the district will aim to increase the percentage of students at the TEA “meets” or “masters” level from 64% (2025) to 66% by 2029; third-grade math is targeted to rise from 55% to 60% over the same period. For high-school CCMR, annual grads who meet at least one CCMR indicator are targeted to increase from 79% to 81% by 2029.

Martinez explained that TEA uses “meets” and “masters” for House Bill 3 calculations, excluding the lower “approaches” level used in other accountability calculations, and that the district’s internal goals exceed the baseline House Bill 3 expectation in places. Campus-level plans and targeted subgroup measures (including special education and economically disadvantaged students) will be used to close achievement gaps; Martinez noted that some subgroup targets already meet federal targets while others remain priorities.

Trustees asked about how the state’s planned changes to assessments (replacement of STAR with multiple measures) would affect accountability and whether districts could rely on MAP testing as a predictive tool. Staff said the district is monitoring TEA’s accountability work and is preparing principals and staff for the transition to assessment models planned for 2028.

The board received the update; the adopted HB3 goals were previously adopted by trustees in September 2024 and were presented as the annual public update.