Texas's Comprehensive CCMR Solution

Texas districts don't switch away from what's working.
They scale it.

SchooLinks is the only comprehensive CCMR solution purpose-built for Texas accountability — all eight indicators, real-time intervention, IBC compliance, and counselor workflows in one platform. Before you walk away from that, let's show you exactly what's been built.

200,000+ Texas students on SchooLinks
6 of Texas's largest districts trust SchooLinks for CCMR
Weeks → Hours CCMR reporting time saved

Comprehensive Texas CCMR Solution

Every indicator. Every student. One platform.

Texas CCMR isn't just a dashboard metric — it's tied to your district's accountability rating, TEA funding, and student outcomes. SchooLinks is the only comprehensive CCMR solution purpose-built for Texas, covering all eight indicators and giving your team the ability to move from aggregate percentages to individual student intervention lists in seconds.

Texas-Specific

Every Texas CCMR indicator. One platform.

SchooLinks tracks all of the indicators that determine a Texas district's CCMR rate and accountability grade — not generic postsecondary metrics adapted for Texas, but indicators built natively into the platform from day one.

  • SAT / ACT Performance Score ≥1070 SAT or ≥22 ACT — tracked per student, per cohort
  • AP / IB Exam Performance Score ≥3 on AP or ≥4 on IB — connected to course enrollment data
  • Dual Enrollment / College Credits Concurrent enrollment hours tracked with transcript integration
  • CTE Completer Status 60+ CTE hours, program-of-study alignment, and completer verification
  • Industry-Based Certification (IBC) HB 773 compliance — certification attainment tied to CCMR points
  • TSI Performance Texas Success Initiative college readiness assessment tracking
  • Military Enlistment ASVAB score tracking and verified enlistment documentation
  • FAFSA Completion Texas graduation requirement — automated completion tracking by campus

CCMR rate directly determines your district's A–F accountability grade from TEA. Every indicator point matters.

Interactive preview — sample data only

CCMR Dashboard — Sample Texas District
Live

District CCMR Rate

67%

Goal: 80% by EOY

Indicator Progress Rate
SAT/ACT
78%
Dual Enrollment
61%
CTE Completer
74%
IBC
52%
FAFSA
69%
Students Missing 2+ Indicators 47 students
AJ
Alexis Johnson, Gr. 11
IBC FAFSA
MR
Marcus Rivera, Gr. 12
SAT/ACT Dual Enroll
KT
Keisha Thompson, Gr. 11
IBC CTE Completer

↓ View all 47 students · Export to CSV · Assign to counselor

From aggregate to individual

Click any CCMR indicator to drill down to the exact students who need intervention. No exports, no pivot tables.

Campus-level breakdowns

Identify which campuses are driving your district-wide rate — and which need targeted counselor deployment.

Benchmark against Texas peers

See how your CCMR rate compares to districts of similar size and demographics across Texas.

Texas District Voices

Texas counselors aren't switching away from SchooLinks. Here's why.

These aren't abstract endorsements. They're from counselors, coordinators, and directors at Texas districts that faced the same renewal decisions — and chose to stay and scale.

Liberty Hill ISD, TX CCMR Tracking
"

One of the big things that we love — because we were doing a Google Sheet for CCMR — being able to track it in SchooLinks has been huge.

Patti Coulter — Lead Counselor, Liberty Hill ISD, TX

Victoria ISD, TX Platform Consolidation
"

One of the most seamless transitions from multiple programs into one. SchooLinks does all of these things for us in such an easy way.

Brandi Henke — District Counseling Director, Victoria ISD, TX

Lamar CISD, TX Student Engagement
"

I have seniors that are checking SchooLinks religiously. They're on there multiple times a day.

Anthony Yim — CCMR Coordinator, Lamar CISD, TX

Liberty Hill ISD, TX Counselor Capacity
"

Since the implementation of SchooLinks, Liberty Hill counselors have been able to regularly meet individually with every student — nearly 2,000 in total.

Patti Coulter — Lead Counselor, Liberty Hill ISD, TX

Also in Texas:

Pflugerville ISD · San Antonio ISD · Lamar CISD · Liberty Hill ISD · Victoria ISD · Sharyland ISD · Little Elm ISD · Richardson ISD · Denton ISD

Hear it directly from Texas districts

Pflugerville ISD, TX

From Weeks to Hours: Streamlining Student Tracking

Liberty Hill ISD, TX

How SchooLinks Simplified CCMR Tracking Overnight

Liberty Hill ISD, TX

Helping Students Go from "I Don't Know" to "I've Got a Plan"

Pflugerville ISD, TX

Real-Time Student Progress Tracking

Pflugerville ISD, TX

Enhancing Student Engagement: Phenomenal Additions

Texas District Story

SchooLinks in Action: Texas District

Platform Consolidation

Four tools doing one job is a budget problem dressed as a systems problem.

Victoria ISD ran CCMR tracking in Google Sheets, course planning in one system, college applications in another, and SIS in a fourth. That's not a technology strategy — it's a workaround. SchooLinks replaced all four.

Before SchooLinks

Four systems. One district. Zero continuity.

  • Google Sheets — CCMR tracking
  • Naviance — College applications
  • SIS export — Course planning
  • Email + manual — Counselor tasks

Each system = separate training, separate license, separate data silo.

After SchooLinks

One platform. Every counselor. Every student.

  • CCMR tracking — real-time, per indicator
  • College application management — built in
  • 4-year course planning — SIS-connected
  • Counselor tasks & student alerts — automated

One license. One data layer. One training investment.

Integration time for Victoria ISD

2 days

Within a day or two, Brandi Henke had her SIS feeding data directly into SchooLinks. No months-long implementation. No consulting fees.

— Brandi Henke, Victoria ISD, TX

Average support response time

Minutes

"Within minutes, I usually had a response." That reliability compounds across a school year, across counselors, across campuses.

— Brandi Henke, Victoria ISD, TX

Tools replaced by SchooLinks

4 → 1

Sharyland ISD added course planning and FAFSA tracking to their college app workflow within two years of onboarding. The ROI compounds.

— Sharyland ISD, TX

The Switching Cost

What no one tells you about switching CCR platforms.

Every competing vendor quotes you a license price. None of them quote you the total cost of transition. We will.

01

6–12 months of productivity loss

Implementation, configuration, and staff ramp-up before you get value from a new platform. For a district the size of Houston, that's measured in semesters — not weeks. Your CCMR data collection does not pause during this period.

02

Years of data continuity — gone

Your CCMR history, 4-year plan data, student postsecondary records, application activity, counselor notes — all of it lives in SchooLinks. Migration is lossy. Starting over means starting blind.

03

Every counselor relearns everything

A large Texas district can have counselors across dozens of campuses. Retraining at that scale — during a school year — creates coverage gaps for the students who need counselors most. Your highest-need students absorb the cost.

04

Compliance gaps during transition

If you switch mid-cycle, you carry two systems simultaneously through TEA reporting. Competing vendors don't have pre-built CCMR indicator logic for Texas — they adapt it. That adaptation takes time you don't have.

The question isn't whether switching is cheaper.

It's whether the disruption is worth it — when you're already building momentum.

See what you've already built

CTE & IBC Compliance

HB 773 didn't create new paperwork. It created new accountability. SchooLinks closes the gap.

Texas's IBC framework connects industry certification attainment directly to CCMR accountability ratings. Tracking this manually — or across disconnected systems — creates reporting gaps that cost districts CCMR points. SchooLinks automates the documentation layer and surfaces the students who are one certification away from hitting a new indicator.

HB 773 Compliance

Certifications → CCMR points. Automated.

SchooLinks tracks CTE completers, program-of-study alignment, and industry certification attainment at scale — and connects this documentation directly to your CCMR indicator data. What previously required manual collection across CTE coordinators is now automatic.

  • IBC tracking tied directly to TEA's approved certification list
  • Program-of-study alignment verified per student
  • CTE completer status auto-calculated (60+ hours threshold)
  • CCMR point attribution visible at the student and district level
  • HB 773 documentation export-ready for TEA reporting

Pflugerville ISD and Little Elm ISD built their IBC tracking workflows directly inside SchooLinks. Districts with large CTE programs across Texas are using the same capability today.

CTE Completer Dashboard
1,847 CTE Enrollees
612 CTE Completers 33.1%
284 IBC Earned +47 this term
Student Program IBC Status CCMR Pt
J. Morales Health Science Earned
T. Williams IT & Computing In Progress
A. Patel Engineering Eligible
D. Brown Construction Tech Earned
S. Nguyen Health Science Earned

Export and TEA reporting available in the live platform.

Platform Momentum

You're not renewing a contract. You're compounding an investment.

The SchooLinks your district uses today is meaningfully different from what you onboarded. The AI layer, agentic workflows, and real-time intervention tools your team now has access to weren't in the platform two years ago. The districts that stayed built something. Starting over resets to zero.

New

An AI agent working alongside every counselor

SchooLinks now includes agentic AI that drafts recommender letters, generates nudges for at-risk students, auto-completes college forms, and surfaces alerts — so counselors spend their time on students, not paperwork.

AI-Powered

Casefile intelligence at scale

The Student Insights Agent reads across a student's full academic and postsecondary record and surfaces what matters: approaching deadlines, off-track indicators, unmet CCMR criteria — before a counselor has to find it manually.

Proactive

Intervention before it's an emergency

Automated alerts fire when a student's CCMR progress drops, a FAFSA deadline is approaching, or a certification opportunity opens. For any district with high caseload volume, proactive systems aren't a luxury — they're how you scale.

Pflugerville ISD went from weeks of CCMR prep to hours.

Same data. Different platform. What would that mean for Houston ISD's team?

Let's Talk

See what you've built in SchooLinks — before you decide anything.

Your CCMR history, 4-year plan data, student records, and counselor workflows didn't build themselves. We'd like to walk your team through everything that's been built — and where the platform is going next.

Schedule an account review

No sales pitch. Just a review of your account and where you are.

Trusted by Texas districts including:

Pflugerville ISD  ·  Victoria ISD  ·  Liberty Hill ISD  ·  Lamar CISD  ·  Sharyland ISD  ·  Little Elm ISD

Common Questions

Things districts ask before renewal.

We've heard these before. They're fair questions. Here are straight answers.

Let's look at utilization data together. In districts that fully activate the platform — CCMR tracking, course planning, application management, and counselor workflows — the time savings are measurable. Pflugerville ISD reduced weeks of CCMR reporting prep to hours. Liberty Hill counselors went from fragmented outreach to individual meetings with every one of their 2,000 students. If you're not seeing ROI, that's a configuration and activation problem — not a platform problem. We can show you exactly what hasn't been turned on yet.
A lower license price doesn't include the cost of switching. Training your counselors across campuses, migrating years of student records, rebuilding CCMR indicator logic, and running two systems simultaneously during TEA reporting — that transition typically costs 6–12 months of productivity. The vendor won't show you that math. We will. In most cases, the total cost of switching is higher than the difference in license price — and that's before you account for the CCMR data continuity you'd be giving up.
Low adoption is almost always a configuration and training problem — not a platform rejection. We've seen this pattern in districts that had slow rollouts, limited onboarding support, or features that were never activated. The fix isn't switching — it's an activation review. We'll audit your setup and identify exactly what needs to change. A new platform resets adoption to zero and adds 6–12 months before counselors reach the same proficiency level.
Naviance and Xello are general-purpose college counseling platforms that have added CCMR-adjacent features. SchooLinks was purpose-built for the Texas CCMR accountability framework — with native support for all eight Texas indicators, IBC tracking tied to HB 773 requirements, and CCMR rate drill-downs at the student level. Ask any competing vendor to show you their Texas CCMR indicator tracking, their IBC workflow, and their campus-level drill-down reports. Then compare.
New leadership is the perfect time to show what's been built — not abandon it. Your CCMR history, 4-year plan data, student postsecondary records, and counselor workflows represent years of investment in your district's infrastructure. Starting over loses that continuity. We'd welcome a session with your new leadership team to walk through the platform's full capability set and show them what your district has built so far.
SchooLinks generates TEA-formatted exports for all major reporting cycles, including CCMR indicator data, CTE completer documentation, IBC certification records, and FAFSA completion rates. Your data in SchooLinks is your data — exportable at any time in the formats TEA requires. We have a dedicated Customer Success team that supports Texas districts through each reporting cycle.