Two different tests. EOA (Exam of Acceleration) is the elementary and middle school route; CBE is the high school one, and the autumn and winter high school sittings take students WITHOUT prior instruction only. The student must be enrolled in Allen ISD. Registration is approved on the campus — the Campus Intervention Specialist at elementary, the counsellor at secondary.

Forms go to the campus counsellor by NOON on the deadline day — the registration window opens earlier and the row records its closing date. Whenever the exam is taken, placement into the new course happens only at the start of a school year, or at the semester for a one-semester course.

Request testing by 4:00pm on the deadline. Student must be enrolled and attending in LISD to be eligible.

70% passes with prior instruction, 80% without. Two attempts per course. Testing is free, but registering and not sitting draws a fine equal to the cost of the exam. Exams come from Texas Tech, UT, or another instrument the superintendent approves.

Vendor: Texas Tech University. Registration closes at noon. Location: NISD Administration Building.

Registration closed at NOON on 20 May 2026 — the district specifies the hour, so a form sent that afternoon was late. This window has now passed; it is kept because it shows the shape of the year: the summer sitting is the widest of the seven, the only one open to every grade for Exams for Acceleration. ═══ DISTRICT-WIDE, from the Prosper ISD CBE page read in full 2026-08-09. Governing policy: EHDC(LEGAL) and EHDC(LOCAL). WHO PAYS. "While there is no charge to parents when the student takes an Exam for Acceleration, there is a cost for the exam. Students who register for an exam and do not take the exam will be required to pay for the cost. ($25 per exam)." Sitting it is free; booking it and not turning up is $25 each. For a year-long course that is two exams, so a no-show costs $50. DOES IT COUNT IN THE GPA? This is where Prosper differs from most districts, and it differs WITHIN Prosper: - High school: the exam score goes on the transcript but is "not computed in GPA or class rank". - Middle school: the same, EXCEPT "for class of 2031 and beyond, the exam score will be computed in GPA or class rank". A high-school family here is therefore not making the trade that Midland families make, where the CBE grade lands in the GPA unweighted. A middle-school family in the class of 2031 or later is. TWO SEMESTERS, BOTH AT 80. Secondary students sit an exam for EACH semester of a course and must earn 80% on BOTH. "The exam scores will not be averaged together" — 85 and 75 is a fail, not an 80. GRADES 1-5. Four exams — English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies — and 80% or higher on ALL FOUR to move up a grade. A district representative must also recommend the acceleration. ATTEMPTS. Twice per exam, ever, and never twice inside the same testing window. THE RULE THAT DECIDES THE TIMING. "Once a student has begun a grade level or course, the student is no longer eligible to take the corresponding Credit by Exam for Acceleration." Combined with "mid-year acceleration is not permitted", this means the decision has to be made BEFORE the course starts — for a year-long course, in the summer window. PRACTICALITIES. All tests are ordered online and proctored by Prosper staff. The campus schedules the date, time and location and notifies the family at least one week ahead. The district provides no study guides, textbooks or materials; it points parents at the University of Texas and Texas Tech review packets. KINDERGARTEN. One administration a year, before school starts, online and proctored. The child must be five by 1 September (state law) and already enrolled — Prosper board policy does not allow early admittance.

One attempt per quarter window, and no more than two attempts overall — the second comes from a different exam source (Texas Tech). Grade-level acceleration requires 80 or above on each of the four tests; below that the record shows no acceleration. Preparation materials come from UT and Texas Tech.

Cycle 1 runs Sept 1 - Nov 30, 2026. Two sittings, Tue Oct 6 and Wed Oct 7, sharing a Sept 4 deadline. The district marks this cycle as not to be used for mid-year promotion.

Free — the district pays for the exams. Kindergarten through grade 12, for acceleration, verification, or credit recovery. Grade-level acceleration in grades 1-8 requires 80% or higher on all four subjects: maths, language arts, science and social studies. Course exams cover maths through Pre-Calculus, English I-IV, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and the social studies sequence. Exams come from UT High School; languages other than English come from AVANT.

Vendor: UT High School. Registration window Aug 3-21, 2026.

Campus contacts registered students with the testing format and date.

How to apply: talk to the campus counsellor first, then complete the EFA registration form (permission to test) and return it to them — elementary and secondary use different forms. Study guides listing the TEKS covered are published by UT High School and Texas Tech TTU K-12. Passing: 90% in kindergarten; 80% in grades 1-5 and 6-12. The district is explicit that 80% or higher MEANS the student accelerates that course — it advises against sitting the exam "just to see". At most four exams per testing window, and up to two exams a day. Cost: free inside the district's published windows. A second sitting, or any exam taken outside a window, is at the family's expense — parents can order directly from UT High School, though K-2 needs prior approval because campus staff must proctor. Results: the counsellor reports within two weeks, and for the grade 4 and grade 7 language arts tests before school starts. A retake is allowed once, with campus approval. Scores do NOT count towards GPA or class rank. Also worth knowing: a student may not test in a course they are currently enrolled in, and no calculator is allowed for maths in K-7, science in grades 1-7, or Economics.

Four sittings a year, exams from UT Austin K-12. 80% or higher on an acceleration exam must be given credit and the student must advance — the district states credit may not be refused once earned. Request forms go through the counsellor by the END OF THE SCHOOL DAY on the closing date; late registrations are not accepted. The Assessment Department picks which of the two dates a student sits and notifies them; specific-date requests are not honoured, so a student must be free on both. A registration is tied to its own administration and cannot be moved to another. Some courses require a portfolio, an activity log or set reading beforehand — check the course study guide.

Arranged through the campus counsellor.

Not a testing window — the rule that makes Math CBE matter. 80% on the Grade 8 Math CBE moves a 7th grader into Algebra 1 AAC; 80% on Grade 6 moves a 5th grader to 7th Grade Math AAC; 6th to Algebra 1 needs Grade 7 AND Grade 8. Algebra 1 TEKS 111.39 makes Grade 8 math the prerequisite for Algebra 1 statewide.

Parent request window 7/6-7/10 — five days. Campus submissions by CTCs run 7/6-7/17. register_by is the PARENT deadline, which is the one a family can miss.

Shares the 31 August deadline with the September window, so registration for both fall sittings closes on the same day. Texas Tech University K-12 writes and scores the exams. Acceleration 80%, verification and retrieval 70%. One attempt per course per window, two overall, and a no-show counts as an attempt.

Parent application deadline 10/09/26, campus ordering 10/16/26. Tested at the home campus. Calendar PDF: https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1783372123/katyisdorg/jaldt4tqmxdfp8rvyw9x/CBECalendar2026_2027.pdf

Saturday sitting. 80% to accelerate, 70% to validate or recover. Vendor: Texas Tech University K12.

The only window whose result applies to the year the student is about to start: LCISD states that "students testing during the fall window are eligible to accelerate immediately, while those who test during the winter, spring, and summer windows will become eligible for acceleration the following school year." Deadline is an "inform counselor" date, eight weeks ahead of the test. DISTRICT-WIDE (from the 2026-27 timeline PDF, read 2026-08-09): 80 percent or higher is required on EACH assessment for a CBE without previous instruction. High school courses are tested BY SEMESTER and most courses have two, so a year-long course means two exams. The score is posted to the transcript AND calculated into GPA and class rank where applicable — worth weighing before accelerating past a course that could later be taken for weighted credit. Attempts are capped: one per exam per window, TWO per exam in total, and "cancellations or no-shows may constitute one attempt" — a booked-and-missed test can cost half the allowance. Exams for Acceleration cover grades 1-7. Grades 1-5 sit four separate core exams; grades 6-8 sit two semester exams per subject. The sequence is Math, then Social Studies, then Science, then Language Arts, and a student moves on only after passing the prior subject. LCISD recommends a student be at "Masters Grade Level" on STAAR (grades 4-7) before being considered. Kindergarten testing happens the summer before first grade. Fall, winter and spring exams are taken at the home campus; summer locations are announced later. Study guides are Texas Tech's.