Academics

Grapevine-colleyville Independent School District

Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, a K-12 public school system in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, is making bold changes in the way we teach and the way students learn. In the third year of its 10-year strategic plan, the district is transforming its culture to provide the foundation that today’s 21st Century learners will need to be successful now and in life beyond high school.

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Quick Facts about GCISD

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Student enrollment - 13,748
Employees - 1,700
Number of Schools - 17 traditional, 2 alternative, 1 early college high school and 1 virtual
Area served - Grapevine, Colleyville, and portions of Euless, Hurst and Southlake (iUniversity Prep is open to students across the state)
Graduation Rate - 96.4% 
Average Years’ Experience of Teachers - 13
Teachers with Advanced Degrees - 34.3%
Student Ethnicity

• African American - 4.97%

• Hispanic - 23.57%

• White - 56.92%

• Asian - 8.85%

• Other (Native American/Pacific Islander) - .55%

• Two or More - 5.14%

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Additional Facts About GCISD

• Nine GCISD campuses met standards on the 2012 Adequate Yearly Progress Report (AYP) released by the Texas Education Agency.

• Colleyville Heritage High School was awarded the 2011 College Readiness Award from the Texas ACT Council for an increase in the amount of students taking the ACT over the last five years.

• GCISD  practices environmental responsibility through programs and procedures geared toward conservation, recycling and efficient operations. These include regulating temperatures in buildings throughout the district and increasing temperatures on nights and weekends when the buildings are not in use, sustaining a districtwide recycling effort, Green Teams at every campus and facility, no idling signs at each campus, and monitoring water usage through irrigation controls and native landscaping.

• Four GCISD schools have been named to the 2011 National Center for Education Achievement's Higher Performing Schools List . Those schools are Colleyville Heritage High School, Colleyville Middle School, O.C. Taylor Elementary and Timberline Elementary. According to the NCEA, schools on the list consistently have more success in preparing students for college and careers than their peers that serve similar student populations. In Texas only 10% of schools are identified as Higher Performing Schools by the organization. 

• Eight students have been named 2013 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Program,  two students have been recognized as Outstanding Participants by the National Achievement Scholarship Program, and one student was named a National Hispanic Scholar and four received Honorable Mention from the National Hispanic Recognition Program. 

• The average AP exam score for GCISD students was 3.15, well above the state average of 2.56 and the national average of 2.89. Sixty-nine percent of GCISD test-takers scored a three or higher on one or more exams, and 39% scored a four or higher on one or more exams. 

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• GCISD has 11 National Blue Ribbon Schools, including Heritage Elementary School which earned the honor under the “No Child Left Behind” initiative. Blue Ribbon Schools include: 

  • Colleyville Heritage High 

  • Grapevine High

  • Bear Creek Elementary

  • Bransford Elementary

  • Colleyville Elementary 

  • Heritage Elementary 

  • Heritage Middle 

  • O.C. Taylor Elementary

  • Grapevine Middle 

  • Timberline Elementary

  • Glenhope Elementary

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