University, College, and Career Paths

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 Rank will not be published on a student’s transcript.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 can also look at their Scores and Performance page in SchooLinks to view their rank and GPA.

Students will receive a notice from Skyward when their rank is available to view.

Students can download their rank letter from Skyward; however, many colleges do not consider this an official letter if it is sent by the student. 

If a student wants to report their rank to a college they will need to indicate in SchooLinks that they would like it sent with their transcripts. The letter will then be sent when the registrar sends the students transcript. 

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.

All students are ranked with the students at the campus they attend. 

Sophomores will receive rank in January of their sophomore 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.

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