# Every Texas CBE Deadline We Can Verify, on One Page > A district portal for Credit by Examination: the next registration deadline in Texas, every testing window we have read from a district’s own calendar, and a plain note where a district publishes nothing. **Source:** https://www.texascbe.com/blog/texas-cbe-district-deadline-portal **Published:** 2026-08-06 Texas CBE™ — independently authored practice exams for Texas Credit by Examination, AP, SAT/PSAT and AMC. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Texas Education Agency, any school district, the College Board, or the Mathematical Association of America. --- cbe-ticker Credit by Examination in Texas is governed by one rule and administered by a thousand districts. **19 TAC §74.24** says a district must offer at least one testing window in each quarter of the year and must publish the dates in advance. What it does not say is *where*. So the dates live in a PDF on one district’s website, a Google Site on another’s, and a conversation with a campus counsellor on a third. A family trying to plan a school year around that has to find each district’s answer separately. That is the problem the [district portal](https://www.texascbe.com/districts-news) exists to solve. ## What is on it The strip at the top of this article is the same one that runs on the portal: every parent application deadline inside the next four months, across every district we track, counting down in Texas time. It is live — if a deadline passed this morning, it is not on there. Underneath that, the portal carries: - **The next deadline in Texas**, whoever it belongs to, with the days remaining. - **Every window we hold** for a district, not only the next one, so a family planning ahead can see the whole year at once. - **The link to the district’s own calendar** on every entry. We are not the source and do not ask to be treated as one. - **Five years of testing volume** through UTHS, one of the two vendors districts buy exams from, with the pass rate beside it. ## What we will not do We do not print a date we have not read on the district’s own page. That sounds obvious and it is the reason the portal covers fewer districts than a search engine would suggest. Of the districts on it today, ten publish dates we have read at source. The rest either send their calendar out through campus counsellors, or we have not read it yet — and the portal says which, by name, rather than leaving a blank that reads like an answer. Search results are worse than useless here. A summary that confidently attributes one district’s window to another is the kind of error a family only discovers on the morning of a test. ## Two things reading the calendars turned up Checking dates at source is slower than aggregating them, and it finds things. **Cypress-Fairbanks ISD** prints one of its 2026–2027 entries as “Tuesday, December 13, 2026”. December 13 2026 is a Sunday. One of those two is wrong and only the district can say which, so the portal shows the date and the discrepancy together and tells you to confirm with the campus. **Celina ISD** lists a window as running “July 27–August 7, 2025” against a registration deadline of “May 22, 2026” — a deadline nine months after its own test. Almost certainly a typed year, but again, not ours to correct silently. Neither of these is a criticism of the districts. Calendars are built by people with a hundred other jobs. They are an argument for reading the source rather than trusting a tidy aggregate, which is the whole method here. ## How to use it 1. Open the [portal](https://www.texascbe.com/districts-news) and find your district in the left column, or search for it. 2. Check the next registration deadline. In Texas that is usually weeks before the test, not days. 3. Open “all windows this year” if you are planning further out than the next sitting. 4. Follow the district’s own link and confirm before you rely on anything. If your district says **dates go out through the campus**, that is not a dead end — it is a phone call. The guide for that district lists the questions worth asking so the call takes one attempt. ## It is not finished Districts publish their next school year at different times, most of them around the start of the autumn term. Several on the portal still show only last year’s calendar; those get re-read as the new ones appear, and the portal records the date each district was last checked so you can see how fresh any given entry is. If your district is missing, or its dates have moved, [tell us](https://www.texascbe.com/support) and we will read the source and update it.