Sulphur Springs High School received an “unacceptable” score in the latest round of accountability ratings but came within three students passing a TAKS science tests of receiving an acceptable accountability ranking.

Six of the eight school districts serving Hopkins County students received “recognized” ratings for the 2009 school year, according to reports released Friday by Texas Education Agency. Four individual schools received the highest possible marks.

Nearly all of the 4.2 inches of rain which pelted Sulphur Springs this weekend fell Saturday, resulting in a few harried hours for police and firemen who worked to keep motorists off the temporarily closed roads and water rescues of motorists who did not heed the storm weather motto to “turn around, don’t drown.”