Last year · 2025–26 · F to B
Congratulations, Wooldridge. The district gave you a sow’s ear. You made a silk purse.
Congratulations to the students. That F-to-B would not have been possible without the staff, former Principal Juan Cardenas, and the library open all year. A library is not extra. It is part of how a school teaches — the same year the district put librarian jobs on a public cut list, then restored them after people showed up. See also recapture, the frozen allotment, and campus cuts.
He finished the year knowing he would not be back.
On Dec. 9, 2025, while 2025–26 was still in session, Superintendent Segura appointed Nick Martinez, then principal of Wooten Elementary, as Wooldridge principal for 2026–27. Former Principal Juan Cardenas stayed through the end of last year and led the campus that posted the B. He already knew the next-year job was assigned to someone else.
Wooten’s rating for that same last year is an F. Wooldridge’s is a B. About 83 Barrington students were zoned into Wooldridge for 2026–27 as Barrington closed. ACE restart means last year’s staff reapply; the new principal hires.
Questions those dates raise
- What does it cost a campus to finish an F-to-B year after December, when the principal already knows he is gone at year’s end?
- Why bring the Wooten principal to Wooldridge for 2026–27, when Wooten scored an F last year and Wooldridge scored a B?
- How many of last year’s Wooldridge staff returned, and how many came from Wooten with Martinez?
- Why add Barrington children to a campus that had just earned a B, then restaff it instead of keeping the people who earned the letter?
Is that AISD’s way of celebrating achievement?
Ratings: Statesman, Aug. 20, 2026 · KVUE 2026 A–F list. Appointment: AISD, Dec. 10, 2025. Barrington → Wooldridge: AISD Barrington letter; Nov. 20, 2025 board (~83 students). Librarian plan: campuses under 400, not on improvement plans, then June 18 amendment. TAP / CIP: Principal Juan Cardenas on the 2025–26 campus papers. Wooten 2025 F: TEA school report card (overall 49).