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Closes November 13 · CBE #5, testing Dec 4 · 35 more by March
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See AMC prep →Texas Credit by Exam (CBE) testing dates and registration deadlines, 2026–2027
When each Texas school district holds Credit by Examination and Exam for Acceleration testing, when the parent application is due, and how to apply through your campus counselor. 28 districts, from their own calendars.
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November first, then the rest of the next four months.
| Apply by | District | Window | Testing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13 in 9 days | BR Brazosport ISD | CBE #5 Grades 1-12 acceleration & credit recovery CBE | Dec 4 |
| Nov 13 in 9 days | MA Mansfield ISD | Cycle 3 · May 2027 (AP exams only) AP exams only · registered at the high school campus | May 3–14 |
| Nov 13 in 9 days | RI Richardson ISD | December administration | Dec 8–9 |
| Nov 16 in 12 days | LU Lubbock-Cooper ISD | Winter window Following grade level | Dec 7–17 |
| Nov 19 in 15 days | AN Anna ISD | CBE #2 Grades 1-12 acceleration/CBE | Jan 4–7 |
| Nov 30 in 26 days | CY Cypress-Fairbanks ISD | December 2026 grades 6-12 · course content | — |
| Nov 30 in 26 days | FR Frisco ISD | Window C (winter, 1-semester only) one-semester high school courses only | Jan 5–8 |
| Dec 5 in 31 days | CA Carroll ISD | CBE #2 Grades K-12 CBE (online, remote proctored) | Jan 9–17 |
| Dec 7 in 33 days | CY Cypress-Fairbanks ISD | K-8 grade acceleration · January 2027 K-8 · grade level acceleration | Jan 5–11 |
| Dec 7 in 33 days | LH Liberty Hill ISD | Winter testing window Grades K-12 acceleration/CBE | — |
| Dec 11 in 37 days | CO Conroe ISD | Spring window Registration window November 30 - December 11, 2026. Two sittings: Saturday 23 January and Saturday 6 February. | Jan 23–Feb 6 |
| Dec 11 in 37 days | NO Northwest ISD | January 2027 HS courses · world languages | Jan 4 |
| Dec 18 in 44 days | PL Plano ISD | CBE #2 Grades 9-12 course CBE | Jan 25–Feb 16 |
| Jan 5 in 62 days | GE Georgetown ISD | Winter window | Jan 19–Feb 5 |
| Jan 7 in 64 days | CO Coppell ISD | Winter window Registration window November 30 - January 7. | Feb 4 |
| Jan 8 in 65 days | BR Brazosport ISD | CBE #6 Grades 1-12 acceleration & credit recovery CBE | Jan 22 |
| Jan 8 in 65 days | LU Lubbock-Cooper ISD | Spring window Following grade level | Feb 1–11 |
| Jan 8 in 65 days | MA Mansfield ISD | Cycle 2 · February 2027 without prior instruction · not for mid-year promotion | Feb 9–10 |
| Jan 8 in 65 days | PR Prosper ISD | Winter window High school with prerequisites met; middle school 7th-8th AVANT only | Feb 1–26 |
| Jan 22 in 79 days | AL Allen ISD | Winter CBE High school — Credit by Exam, without prior instruction only. | Feb 20 |
| Jan 22 in 79 days | HO Houston ISD | CBE #3 grades 9-12 only · advance in a course | Feb 8–12 |
| Jan 22 in 79 days | PF Pflugerville ISD | Early Spring 2027 grades 6-12 · one-semester and high school courses ONLY | Feb 8–Mar 5 |
| Jan 29 in 86 days | AL Allen ISD | Spring EOA Elementary and middle school — Exam of Acceleration. | Mar 3–10 |
| Jan 29 in 86 days | BR Brazosport ISD | CBE #7 Grades 1-12 acceleration & credit recovery CBE | Feb 19 |
| Jan 29 in 86 days | HU Humble ISD | Spring I — all CBE All CBE pathways: acceleration, verification, retrieval | Mar 1–5 |
| Jan 29 in 86 days | HU Humble ISD | Spring II — all CBE All CBE pathways: acceleration, verification, retrieval | May 10–14 |
| Jan 29 in 86 days | LE Leander ISD | February 2027 grades 1-12 | Feb 24–Mar 5 |
| Feb 1 in 89 days | RR Round Rock ISD | Middle of year — February Secondary only. | — |
| Feb 2 in 90 days | LE Lewisville ISD | First Spring Testing grades 1-12 | Feb 22–26 |
| Feb 5 in 93 days | KA Katy ISD | March 2027 grades 1-12 · home campus | Mar 1–5 |
| Feb 9 in 97 days | RI Richardson ISD | March administration | Mar 9 |
| Feb 17 in 105 days | NO Northside ISD | March 2027 administration ES/MS grade level · MS math · HS course acceleration, recovery, validation | Mar 20 |
| Feb 19 in 107 days | FR Frisco ISD | Window D (spring) | Mar 22–Apr 5 |
| Feb 26 in 114 days | BR Brazosport ISD | CBE #8 Grades 1-12 acceleration & credit recovery CBE | Mar 19 |
| Feb 26 in 114 days | LE Little Elm ISD | Spring session | Mar 22–Apr 2 |
| Mar 4 in 120 days | CO Coppell ISD | Spring window Registration window February 22 - March 4. Sittings are split by campus: May 4 CMS North, May 5 CMS East, May 6 CMS West, and May 27 for day two. | May 4–27 |
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Middle-school credit-by-exam sittings through UTHS, one of the two vendors Texas districts buy from. Volume is up 66% in five years. This is a floor on the state total, not the total itself — Texas Tech sittings and district-written exams are not counted here.
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Sittings are the six series UTHS publishes — maths and science at grades 6, 7 and 8 — added together. The pass rate shown is for 8th-grade maths, the largest single series, at the 80% bar. See the five-year breakdown →
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When we last checked each district against its own published calendar.
How Texas CBE scheduling works
Under 19 TAC §74.24, a district must offer a testing window in each quarter of the year — January–March, April–June, July–September and October–December — so there are normally four chances a year. A student may sit a given exam once per window, and the rule also says the dates are to be publicized. Every district we have fully surveyed offers a window in all four.
The rule fixes how many windows, not where the quarters fall. Most districts draw them on the calendar year as above; Mansfield ISD runs September–November, December–February, March–May and June–August instead. Both satisfy §74.24, so do not assume two districts’ cycles line up. Some districts also offer more than the minimum — Allen and Pflugerville publish six.
What changes district to district is who may use which window. Some restrict the mid-year windows to one-semester courses, so a year-long course such as Algebra 1 or Geometry can only be taken in summer. Some open only grades 9–12 outside the summer windows. That restriction is in the “Who” column of each district's calendar above.
The deadline that matters is the parent application deadline, not the campus ordering deadline that follows it. A campus cannot order an exam against a request that was never filed, so the later date is not a second chance. Lead times vary widely — Houston ISD gives families a five-day request window; Katy ISD asks five weeks ahead of the exam.
Every date on this page is copied from the district's own published calendar, stamped with the day we last checked it and linked back to the source. Even so, figures and dates here may differ from what your district tells you. Districts revise calendars during the year, some leave last year's schedule published for months, and a few give only a month range or send families to a counselor instead of publishing dates at all — those are marked as such rather than filled in with a guess. Counts on this page describe the districts we have surveyed, not all of Texas, and they change as we add more. Confirm with your campus counselor before you file anything, and treat the district's own page — linked from every entry — as the authority over ours.
Credit by Examination in Texas — common questions
Answered from the 28 districts surveyed on this page, not from the rule alone.
How many times a year can a Texas student take a Credit by Examination?
Under 19 TAC §74.24 a district must offer a testing window in each quarter of the year, so there are normally four opportunities, and a student may sit any given exam once per window. Some districts offer more than the minimum — Pflugerville ISD publishes six.
What score does a student need to pass a Texas CBE?
For credit without prior instruction under TEC §28.023 — the free district route — the standard is 80%. The paid route under 19 TAC §74.24, with prior instruction, is 70%. Districts may also set the bar by purpose rather than by route: Northside ISD requires 80% to accelerate but 70% to validate or recover credit.
Which deadline matters — the application deadline or the campus ordering deadline?
The parent application deadline. The campus ordering deadline that follows it is not a second chance, because a campus cannot order an exam against a request that was never filed. Lead times vary widely: Houston ISD gives families a five-day request window, while Katy ISD asks about five weeks ahead of the exam.
Do all Texas districts use the same testing quarters?
§74.24 fixes how many windows a district must offer, not where the quarters fall. Most draw them on the calendar year — January to March, April to June, July to September, October to December — but Mansfield ISD runs September to November, December to February, March to May and June to August. Two districts’ cycles cannot be assumed to line up.
Do all Texas districts publish their CBE testing dates?
No. Of the 28 districts surveyed here, 24 publish exact dates. The rest give only a month range, or direct families to a campus counselor. Several also leave the previous school year’s calendar published well into the new one, so the year on the page is worth checking.
Who writes the exams a Texas district uses for Credit by Examination?
Most districts order from the University of Texas High School (UTHS) or Texas Tech University K-12. Some split by subject — Carroll ISD uses UTHS generally but Avant for world languages, and Denton ISD lists all three. Richardson ISD requires a student’s second attempt to come from a different vendor than the first.