All students in grades 10-12 will have their rank run on a district determined release time frame. Students will receive their rank in Skyward via a separate document. Rank will not be published on a student’s transcript.  

All students' transcripts will include courses taken, credit earned, grades received, graduation requirements, and a student's GPA.

 No rank will be included on the transcript sent to any college and or university. 

All students will receive a letter in their Portfolio in Skyward that gives them their rank and quartile. 

Students will be notified through campus communication that their rank is available. 

A student will download the rank letter from Skyward and send the letter to the college/university of their choice.

Additionally, the district is working with SchooLinks on an automated option based on students’ and parents' decisions to provide rank to a college. This automation could take up until November according to the company.  

Under the counselor completed section in the Common Application, to help students who want their rank provided within online college application platforms, counselors sent out a form for students to identify if they wanted to provide colleges with their rank until the automatic process in SchooLinks is built. This submission by the counselor is not a copy of the rank letter document provided by Fort Bend ISD in the students Skyward Portfolio. It is still the student’s responsibility to supply the actual rank letter document to the colleges or universities of their choice.  

The purpose of counselors sending a form to students prior to the September rank release was to assist students in the top 10% in submitting their July rank for college applications for automatic admissions.  

Students in the class of 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027 will be ranked with the school they are zoned to according to their home address.

 Students in the class of 2028 and beyond will be ranked at the campus they attend. 

Sophomores will receive rank in January of their sophomore year.

Juniors will receive their rank in September, January, and June of their junior year. 

Seniors will receive their rank in September, January, and June of their senior year. For commencement purposes only, Rank occurs in April of the Senior year.   

When SchooLinks or the Common App request how do you rank and the options show the following: exact, decile, quintile, quartile, none.  

The technology systems are asking so the system knows which field to provide the user with next, so the information will go into the platform as the correct value. Therefore, depending on your choice to provide rank, quartile, or not to provide rank dictates how you should answer so the system can provide the desired field to be entered.

 Fort Bend ISD provides rank and quartile to students and families separate from the transcript. It will need to be indicated during the application completion in order to submit the quartile, the exact rank, a quintile, or none. To include rank with the application, click exact. To not include rank in the application, choose none. It is important to note that, with the Common Application, once a student makes a choice, that choice will be the same for any college they apply to using the Common Application. 

Class Rank is run as a snapshot in time. Therefore, if a student is not in the system or is switching schools or residences, the snapshot may not include the student in the rank calculation. Please reach out to your student's high school registrar with any questions.  

School profiles will be ready and posted on the school webpages and updated in SchooLinks, by the end of September. The profiles will indicate that Fort Bend ISD’s policy on class ranking of students is to provide rank not on the transcript. This provides students and families the opportunity to provide their rank or quartile if they choose to provide their data to colleges or for scholarships as well as to personally know their rank.

• The move away from ranking students is intended to reduce unhealthy competition, unnecessary stress, and pressure on students, reprioritizing students' mental health and well-being. 

• The change to the top ten percent calculation addresses concerns voiced by students and parents about inequities created by the current academy structure. The current academy structure, in which students who are enrolled in academy programs at multiple campuses, were taking top ten percent spots from the students who reside within the school’s attendance boundaries.  

Colleges and scholarships review a student based on the applicant’s experiences, courses a student took, a student’s GPA, letters of recommendations, extra-curricular activity, volunteer and service work, outside activities, personal experiences in life as they look for well-rounded students who challenged themselves. 

The transcript will be from the school they attend and will include the name of their program underneath the school's name. 

• Beginning with the class of 2024, class Rank will be calculated only for the top ten percent of the class as required by state law.
• This will change the way Fort Bend ISD issues transcripts and recognizes student achievement, providing a more comprehensive review of a student’s high school record, beyond the traditional “ranking” system.
• Additionally, beginning with the class of 2024, students in a Program of Choice and high school students on an intradistrict transfer shall be ranked with the students at the high school within the attendance boundary in which they reside. The attendance boundary campus for students in Programs of Choice and high school students on an intradistrict transfer shall be designated as the campus of accountability (see ED LOCAL).