Texas Real Estate Exam Pass Rates, by School

Updated October 16, 2026 from Texas Real Estate Commission records.

Statewide, 56.12% of Texas sales-agent candidates passed both portions of the licensing exam on the first attempt — 16,824 of 29,980. Of the 30 approved providers TREC reports, 12 sit below the state's own minimum of 44.94%. This is TREC's published data, re-sorted so the schools most Texans actually attend appear first, with sample sizes shown next to every rate.

Short answer: Learn Texas Real Estate Online, 86.57% first-attempt pass rate on 67 exams — the highest floor in the file, and a school that pays us nothing. The four picks, and the rule behind them.

Which school should you actually pick?

Four picks, each produced by one stated rule against today's TREC file. The short answer: take Pick 1 for the best measured outcome, Pick 2 for a physical classroom, Pick 3 if price is the constraint, Pick 4 if you want the cheapest pass-or-don't-pay guarantee. All four clear TREC's minimum.

Who pays us: AceableAgent and Colibri Real Estate, if you enrol through our links. Every other school here pays us nothing. Each card says which, and each pick states its rule before the name. The top pick pays us nothing; the rule decided it, not us.

Prices, packages and guarantee wording above were read off each school's own page on September 22, 2026 by a person, not by the daily build. Promotional pricing changes weekly; the price on their page is the real one. This page drops every price automatically 30 days after that check rather than show a number nobody re-read. The TREC rates refresh daily and are unaffected.

How these four were chosen, and what would change them

Two of the four are computed by the code below; the other two are editorial and say so. Pick 1 is whichever provider with at least 30 sales-agent exams has the highest lower bound on its 95% range — the lower bound, because that is the figure a lucky run of twelve candidates cannot inflate. Pick 2 is whichever provider in that set has put the most people through the exam. Pick 3 is the cheapest price we checked by hand. Pick 4 is our second paying partner, named so that our incentive is fully visible rather than half of it.

Where the line sits, and what it decides. A provider must have at least 30 sales-agent exams to be picked here. That floor is ours, not TREC's: TREC reports every provider whatever its volume, and we decline to rank a rate built on a handful of candidates. That number decides the outcome, so it is stated before the picks rather than after. At a 100-exam line, Pick 1 would instead be AceableAgent, which pays us. We drew the line at 100 until 22 September 2026. We do not any more, because using a stricter floor in the section where we are paid than in the table where we are not is how a rule quietly becomes an advertisement.

58 of the 120 pairs in this set do not overlap at all, so the file supports a good deal more than one comparison.

The rules run daily against TREC's file. If another school overtakes Pick 1 the name in that card changes by itself — including to a school that pays us nothing, in which case the disclosure above says so. We fixed the rule before we knew who it would name, and we publish the rule so you can run it yourself on the table below. What the rules deliberately ignore: advertised pass rates, review scores, our commission rate, and every provider's own marketing.

Run the rule yourself

The picks are produced by this, against the same CSV this page publishes. If it disagrees with the cards above, the cards are wrong and we want to know.

import csv, math, urllib.request

rows = list(csv.DictReader(urllib.request.urlopen(
    "https://txlicensedata.online/data/texas-exam-pass-rates.csv").read().decode().splitlines()))

def lower_bound(passed, n, z=1.96):          # Wilson, 95%, lower bound
    p = passed / n
    d = 1 + z*z/n
    c = (p + z*z/(2*n)) / d
    m = z * ((p*(1-p)/n + z*z/(4*n*n)) ** 0.5) / d
    return 100 * (c - m)

eligible = [r for r in rows if int(r["sales_exams"] or 0) >= 30]
pick1 = max(eligible, key=lambda r: lower_bound(int(r["sales_passed"]), int(r["sales_exams"])))
pick2 = max(eligible, key=lambda r: int(r["sales_exams"]))
print(pick1["school"], pick2["school"])

Which schools can actually be compared

Most of the table below cannot be ranked meaningfully: 17 of 30 providers reported fewer than 100 sales-agent exams, and a rate on that few candidates moves double digits on one person. Applying our floor — 30 exams, below which we will not rank a provider at all — leaves these, ordered by pass rate, with the 95% range that says how firm each figure is. Anything still marked "thin sample" has under 100 exams behind it: included, because the rule includes it, and flagged, because the range is wide:

Read the ranges, not the ranking. Where two providers' ranges overlap, TREC's data does not establish that one is better than the other — Champions and Kaplan overlap; The CE Shop and Colibri overlap. One result does stand apart: Learn Texas Real Estate Online's range sits clear of every other provider at this volume. It is not the only separation the data supports — 58 of the 120 pairs in this set do not overlap — but it is the widest, and it is why Pick 4 says to buy Colibri on price and guarantee rather than on rate.

Every approved provider, by exam volume

Sorted by the number of sales-agent exams taken, because that is the only column that tells you how many people a school has actually put through the exam. TREC's own table is alphabetical, which is why a provider with three exams can appear to outperform one with fifteen thousand. The 95% range column is the honest width of each estimate: a small school's headline rate can move many points on a handful of candidates.

TREC reporting window 12/1/2023 to 11/30/2025. Counts candidates passing both national and state portions on the first attempt. A candidate is attributed to the provider where they took the majority of their qualifying courses in the two years before first sitting. Checked daily; last checked October 16, 2026. Two things about this table a reader should not have to infer: the "standing" column is computed on TREC's combined sales-and-broker rate, so a provider below the minimum on the sales column beside it can still read "above the benchmark"; and the only two rows carrying a course link are the two providers that pay us, which makes this table a conversion surface available to advertisers alone. Every other row is the same data without a link.

What the benchmark is, and what it is not

TREC sets a Minimum Pass Rate at 80% of the Overall Pass Rate — the sales agent and broker exams combined, currently 56.18%. That gives an MPR of 44.94%, and half the overall rate is 28.09%. Both thresholds move every month, because both are derived from a figure that is recalculated every month.

Note which number the arithmetic uses: 44.94% is 80% of the combined 56.18%, not of the 56.12% sales-agent figure in the tile above. Mixing those two up is easy, and it is why we show both.

These tiers are prospective, not a current status. Providers apply for reapproval every four years, and TREC's rule §535.61(l) says the Commission uses the pass rate to decide good standing, probation, or revocation at that point. A provider below the line today is not under sanction today. The column says "at reapproval" because that is when it would bite, and we do not classify any provider with fewer than 30 exams at all, because a rate built on a handful of candidates tells you nothing in either direction.

Why two schools have exclamation marks in their names

TREC's table is sorted alphabetically, so two providers have registered legal school names beginning with punctuation to sit at the top of it. They appear that way here because that is how TREC reports them, and we would rather show you the artifact than tidy it away — it is the clearest possible illustration of why the source's default ordering should not be read as a ranking, which is the reason this page sorts by exam volume instead.

Read the sample size before the rate

17 of the 30 providers reported fewer than 100 sales-agent exams, and several reported fewer than ten. At those volumes a single candidate moves the headline rate by ten points or more, which is why the table shows the 95% range beside each figure. A provider showing 0% on one exam has not been shown to be worse than one showing 50% on four — there is simply no evidence either way. Every comparison table we found online prints these numbers as though they were equivalent to a rate computed on fifteen thousand candidates.

Take the data

TREC's table is drawn in the browser from a JSON file that anyone can fetch — it is published, just not linked, labelled or documented anywhere a reader would find it, and it is overwritten each month with no archive. Ours is the same data as a CSV with the reporting window, the statewide figure and the benchmark in every row, under a CC-BY licence, kept day by day since 4 September 2026. Cite it, check it against TREC's file, or argue with it.

Why this page exists

TREC publishes all of this, and TREC is the authority — but its table is drawn by JavaScript from a data file, so it does not appear to search engines the way an ordinary page does, and it is sorted alphabetically with no way to rank, filter or download it. It also carries only the current window: each month the figures are recalculated and the previous window is gone. Nobody, TREC included, publishes a history. We began archiving that data on 4 September 2026, so this page will grow a trend the source itself does not keep.

How to read a school's advertised pass rate

Most schools publish a pass rate somewhere. Comparing it to the table above is harder than it looks, and the reason is almost always the window rather than dishonesty. TREC recalculates a rolling 24-month window every month and keeps no archive, so a school quoting a figure from an earlier window cannot be checked against TREC today — by anyone, including us.

Examples read off each school's own page on September 22, 2026:

• AYPO advertises 50.92% as of 31 August 2025 and prints a statewide figure alongside it. TREC currently reports 49.47%. A dated number, a comparator, and a figure that puts the school below the state average — the most honest form this advertising takes.
• AceableAgent publishes its Texas comparison as an image captioned "Texas Pass Rates as of 11/30/25", covering — in their caption's words — "the six largest by volume of sales agent exams taken". The date matches TREC's current window and the scope is stated, which is more than most. But that volume cut removes the one school in Texas whose interval beats theirs: our Pick 1, on 67 exams. It is the same manoeuvre we removed from this page — a volume threshold that flatters whoever sets it — and we can describe it precisely because we were doing it until this week. The numbers are also drawn as a picture, so no reader, screen reader or search engine can check them without retyping; the same figures as text, with exam counts and intervals, are in our table above.
• The CE Shop publishes a Texas pass-rate page, but it refused every request we made on September 22, 2026. Our rule is that we do not quote a number we could not read ourselves, so we quote none — their TREC figure is in the table above like everyone else's.

One more, because it is probably the page you read before this one. The highest-ranking affiliate comparison for this question, realestatelicensetraining.com, carries "Last updated on August 2, 2023" and puts AceableAgent first at 72.25%. TREC's current file reports 65.81% for that school. Their page states no reporting window at all, so we cannot say which one they used — only that the page says it was last updated in August 2023, and that six of the schools in their table no longer appear in TREC's file at all. A figure with no window and no exam count cannot be checked by anyone, including them.

One detail in their favour, which we print because it cuts against us. Their own table ranks Learn Texas Real Estate Online above AceableAgent, on a window that ended in 2023 — and TREC's current window agrees. Two independent windows put the same school on top, and it is the school that pays neither of us.

The questions worth asking of any advertised rate: does it state a window, does it state the number of exams behind it, and does it show the statewide figure next to it? A rate with none of those is not necessarily wrong, but it cannot be checked. TREC's own rule for providers, §535.65(c)(1)(C), asks for the overall percentages and the exam counts at the same prominence for exactly that reason.

A disclosure that belongs on this page

This site earns affiliate commission from two of the providers listed above, AceableAgent and Colibri Real Estate. That is exactly why the table is TREC's data, sorted by a neutral column, with every provider included — the ones that pay us, the ones that do not, and the ones below the state minimum. Check any row against TREC's source table; if a figure here disagrees with TREC, TREC is right and we want to know. Our methodology page sets out how everything on this site is computed.

Common questions

What percentage of people pass the Texas real estate exam?

56.12% of Texas sales-agent candidates passed both the national and state portions on the first attempt, 16,824 of 29,980, in TREC's reporting window 12/1/2023 to 11/30/2025.

Which Texas real estate school has the best pass rate?

TREC publishes a pass rate for each approved provider. Several of the highest headline rates rest on fewer than 100 exams and are not reliable estimates; among providers with substantial volume the rates range widely. 12 of 30 reported providers fall below TREC's minimum pass rate of 44.94%.

Which Texas real estate school should I choose?

Among Texas providers with at least 30 sales-agent exams, Learn Texas Real Estate Online has the highest 95% lower bound on its first-attempt pass rate (86.57% on 67 exams). Champions School of Real Estate LTD has put the most candidates through the exam (15,547) and is the main classroom option. Any provider above TREC's minimum pass rate of 44.94% is in good standing. This site earns affiliate commission from AceableAgent and Colibri Real Estate, and from AceableAgent's PrepAgent exam-prep product; it earns nothing from any other school named.

What is the minimum pass rate a Texas real estate school must maintain?

TREC sets the Minimum Pass Rate at 80% of the statewide overall rate, currently 44.94%. Providers below it are subject to probation, and those below half the statewide rate are subject to disapproval or revocation.