Recent changes in Fort Bend ISD’s class ranking policy have sparked controversy as students find themselves ranked among students who don’t attend their same school, raising questions of ...

The Blue Mountain School District has brought back its class ranking system following weeks of public encouragement to do so, a campaign by a high achieving student and a heated school board meeting.

Fort Bend ISD is fast-tracking the reversal of a hotly contested class ranking policy that orders students based on the school they are zoned to attend, rather than the campus they actually attend.

ORWIGSBURG — Hoisting a colorful array of signs, dozens of people gathered outside the Blue Mountain District Office on Wednesday with a fervent message about the school’s class rank policy.

A heated Blue Mountain School Board meeting ended with its class rank system still up in the air Thursday night after the district’s solicitor advised that a 5 to 3 vote in favor of reinstating ...