Schools in Cedar Park
Cedar Park is served primarily by Leander ISD, which received an overall 'B' rating (score of 87) from the Texas Education Agency for the 2025-26 school year -- a different, official state accountability measure from the Niche.com consumer rankings cited in the base record (Leander ISD #23 in Texas, #2 in the Austin area, A+ overall by Niche). Both are real, legitimate ratings using different methodologies, and both are worth knowing rather than treating as interchangeable.
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Learn moreTEA's Official 2025-26 Accountability Rating: A Genuinely Strong District, With Real Exceptions
The Texas Education Agency's 2025-26 A-F accountability ratings gave Leander ISD an overall 'B' (score 87), with 68% of the district's 47 rated campuses (32 of 47) earning an A or B -- including all eight high schools and eight of the district's nine middle schools. Two campuses received a 'D' and two received an 'F.' This is a genuinely strong district-level performance on the state's own official measure, though it is not universal across every campus -- see the base record's separate Niche-derived figures for a different, consumer-facing take on the same district.
District Growth and a Pending 2026 Bond
As of the 2025-26 school year, Leander ISD enrolls more than 43,000 students across 40+ campuses and has been among the fastest-growing districts in Texas for more than a decade, reflecting the broader Austin-metro northwest-corridor growth documented on the jobs-economy topic page. A Leander ISD bond committee has proposed a package in the range of $591.2 million to $708.5 million for potential placement on the November 2026 ballot, addressing campus needs, safety and security, and technology -- a real, current signal that the district's rapid growth is creating capacity and facilities needs the district is actively working to address, not a hypothetical concern.
Vandegrift High School and Campus-Level Variance
Vandegrift High School, which serves part of Cedar Park, is individually ranked #10 among all Texas public high schools by Niche (per the base record) -- a strong, specific data point, though it should be read alongside the district-wide TEA figures above rather than assumed to represent every Leander ISD campus a Cedar Park family might be assigned to. Given the real spread between the district's A/B-rated majority and its small number of D/F campuses, a family evaluating a specific Cedar Park address should check that address's actual assigned schools' current individual ratings directly.
For a Specific Address
Because Leander ISD's attendance zones can place different Cedar Park addresses into meaningfully different specific schools (see the buying-a-home topic page's note on confirming this before an offer), and because both the TEA official rating and the Niche consumer ranking are legitimate but methodologically different measures, check TEA's TXschools.gov accountability database and Leander ISD's own attendance-zone tools directly for any specific target address rather than relying on either district-wide figure alone.
Key takeaways
- Leander ISD received an overall 'B' (score 87) from the TEA for 2025-26, with 68% of rated campuses (32 of 47) earning an A or B, including all 8 high schools -- alongside 2 'D' and 2 'F' campuses.
- This TEA figure is a different, official measure from the Niche.com consumer ranking cited in the base record (#23 in Texas, #2 in the Austin area, A+ overall) -- both are legitimate but not interchangeable.
- Leander ISD enrolls 43,000+ students across 40+ campuses and has proposed a $591.2M-$708.5M bond for the November 2026 ballot to address growth-driven capacity, safety, and technology needs.
- Vandegrift High School (serving part of Cedar Park) ranks #10 among Texas public high schools by Niche -- but check the specific school(s) assigned to any target address directly, given real campus-level variance districtwide.
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