Credit by Exam
New Enrollees
The next New Enrollee Acceleration opportunity for Elementary and Middle School students will be next September 2020.
Kindergarten Acceleration
The next Kindergarten Acceleration opportunity will be next September 2020.
Assessments will be administered on the student’s home campus once they arrive in the district.
Generally, children are best placed at a grade level with students of their own age. However, some students of kindergarten age 
may already have mastered the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for kindergarten and, for this reason, are ready to go on to first grade. Acceleration by Examination for kindergarten is to allow students to advance to first grade who are not yet six years of age but are academically ready to do so. Typically, these are students who have been enrolled in a private kindergarten (accredited or non-accredited) or a homeschool arrangement.
Kindergarten acceleration opportunities will be offered only once per year. Comal ISD does not accept another district’s kindergarten acceleration testing. A student who enrolls in Comal ISD must meet Comal ISD standards if deadlines have not passed.
A student in kindergarten may be accelerated to first grade if he or she meets ALL of the following requirements in this order:
- The student is five (5) years of age on September 1 of the school year in which tested;
- The student is six years old on or before December 31 of the school year in which tested;
- The student is enrolled in kindergarten in the District;
- The student’s parent or guardian initiates the request in writing within the first two weeks of school;
- The parent/guardian timely files the request with the campus principal and attends a conference to discuss the request;
- The student scores at or above the kindergarten end-of-year expectations on the District’s early reading assessment, which is administered by the kindergarten teacher; and
- The student scores at least 80 on each of the following kindergarten content area assessments (language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies) through Credit by Exam. Comal ISD will purchase and administer the exams to the student.
The principal will make the recommendation for acceleration and the decision made will be final.
Credit by Exam Testing Dates/Deadlines
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Elementary and Middle School (ES/MS) |
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Testing Level |
Applications posted to CISD website |
Applications Due to campus by end of school day |
Testing Dates at Campuses |
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ES/MS Fall Testing |
October 15 |
October 28 |
November 18-22 |
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ES/MS Spring Testing |
January 28 |
February 10 |
March 2-6 |
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*ES/MS Summer I Testing |
April 28 |
May 18 |
Hill Country School-June 8-9 In Town School- June 10-11 |
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*ES/MS Summer II Testing |
April 28 |
May 18 |
Hill Country School- July 27-28 In Town School- July 29-30 |
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High School (HS) |
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Testing Level |
Applications posted to CISD website |
Applications Due to campus by 4pm |
Testing Dates at Campuses |
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HS Fall Testing |
September 5 |
September 23 |
CHS-November 2 CLHS-October 26 SVHS-October 19 |
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HS Spring Testing |
December 17 |
January 13 |
CHS-February 1 CLHS-February 8 SVHS-February 22 |
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HS Summer I Testing |
April 28 |
May 18 |
CHS- June 8 CLHS-June 10 SVHS-June 9 |
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HS Summer II Testing |
April 28 |
May 18 |
CHS-July 28 CLHS-July 30 SVHS-July 29 |
*ES/MS Summer testing is held at one hill country campus and one in town campus. The testing will be two days per campus as noted on the applications.
IMPORTANT:
Starting February 1, 2018, students may request the UT High School CBEs for acceleration for courses with a state-level EOC (Algebra I, Biology, English I, English II, & U.S. History).