Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District: Enrolling With Documents in Another Language

Worth knowing about Cy-Fair ISD

Cy-Fair ISD requirements in detail

Three steps for high school students from abroad

Cy-Fair ISD registers students in grades 9 to 12 whose last school was outside the United States in three steps (Cy-Fair ISD: International students).

First, the family starts online enrollment, chooses the school zoned to its address and uploads every document to the Registration Application; this is where the English translation belongs.

Second, once the Registrar's Office has verified the documents, it contacts the coordinator of the high school Guidance & Counseling Office, which sets an appointment with the family to review the foreign academic records.

Third, student and parent return to the campus to finish registration with the Registrar and the counseling office.

The counseling appointment decides three things at once: the student's classification (the grade level), the course credit awarded, and the English language support the student receives.

Initial language testing may happen before it (Cy-Fair ISD: International students). Because the Registrar verifies documents before the referral, uploading the translations with the originals at the start keeps the file moving.

Spanish records, and everything else

The district's note is specific: the parent or guardian translates school records into English "other than Spanish" (Cy-Fair ISD: International students).

Report cards and transcripts in Spanish, from Mexico, Central or South America or Puerto Rico, can go in as issued. Records in Portuguese, Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese, French or any other language need an English translation.

Counselors award credit course by course, so the translation has to keep every subject, every year, the hours where the record shows them, and the grading scale printed on the document.

We translate marks exactly as recorded and never convert them to a US GPA; the counseling office makes that comparison itself.

Middle school and exchange students

Students entering grades 1 to 8 register at their assigned campus rather than through the high school process, but records of students entering grades 7 and 8 are reviewed for possible high school credit (Cy-Fair ISD: International students), so a translated report card matters there too.

Foreign exchange students follow different rules: they are approved first by the district's student admissions office, must supply an English translation of their immunization report showing the month, day and year of each required immunization, and have their prior transcript evaluated for grade level and courses, which is not transcribed onto a CFISD record unless they graduate from the district (Cy-Fair ISD: Foreign exchange students).

Documents families usually translate

• Report cards and transcripts for every high school year completed abroad
• Report cards from the last school year, for students entering grades 7 and 8
• Immunization records, cards or booklets
• Birth certificates issued abroad
• School leaving or transfer certificates from the last school

What an eVerbary translation includes

• A complete English translation of every page, stamps, seals and handwritten notes included, laid out like the original so each line can be matched.
• Grades, hours and credits exactly as recorded, with the grading scale the document prints. We never convert marks to a US GPA or equivalency.
• A signed certificate of translation accuracy on letterhead, with our contact details, delivered as a PDF you can upload or print.
• $24.95 per page of up to 250 words, certification included; 24 hours for one to three pages as standard. Regular clients who need it can get delivery in as little as 30 minutes, on request.
• Notarization added at checkout ($34.90 per order) when the office asks for a notarized translation.

Submitting the translation to Cy-Fair ISD

• Upload the translation together with a scan of the original record to the online Registration Application when you start enrollment (Cy-Fair ISD: International students). Have both at hand for the counseling appointment, where the foreign records are reviewed.

• For questions about a student whose last school was in another country, the district lists InternationalStudentAdmissions@cfisd.net and (281) 517-2691 (Cy-Fair ISD: International students).

How to order

1. Scan or photograph every page of the document, front and back, including any stamps on the reverse.
2. Upload it, choose the language and "certified", and see the price before paying.
3. Receive the PDF, usually within 24 hours for one to three pages, and submit it with the copy of the original wherever the office asks for it.

Frequently asked questions