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Uvalde CISD presents Skyward audit showing rank shifts; board declines automatic weighting for incoming transfer students
Summary
Auditors and district staff described coding errors in the district’s student information system that altered class ranks for hundreds of students; trustees then voted to decline an administrative recommendation to automatically apply advanced‑course weighting to transfer students unless the originating transcript explicitly designates the course as advanced.
District staff told the Uvalde CISD board that a multi‑year audit of GPA and class‑rank calculations uncovered systemic data‑entry and security access problems in Skyward that affected student rankings district‑wide.
Ms. Graber, who led the audit presentation, said the findings were not a teacher grading error but the result of inconsistent course coding and too many users with the ability to adjust records. She reported 42 students had been excluded from rank by a manual flag, there were 210 movements of students recorded during corrections, and staff reviewed…
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