Every Texas CBE Deadline We Can Verify, on One Page
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 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.
Credit by Examination asks for 80% with no prior instruction. Full-length mock exams written to the same TEKS the exam is drawn from — Algebra 1, Geometry, Biology, Chemistry and more.
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Every subject has free practice questions with the full worked solution. Take some and see whether they look like the exam your district set.
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Every Credit by Examination window we have verified from a district's own calendar — 22 districts, 75 windows, each with the source it came from.
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Not a guess at what might be on it. Full worked solutions and timed mock exams built to the same TEKS the Credit by Examination is written against.
Browse the subjects →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
- Open the portal and find your district in the left column, or search for it.
- Check the next registration deadline. In Texas that is usually weeks before the test, not days.
- Open “all windows this year” if you are planning further out than the next sitting.
- 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 and we will read the source and update it.
