In June 2020, with schools closed by the pandemic, Mexico’s Ministry of Public Education changed the rules for the end of the school year. Under Agreement 12/06/20, published in the official gazette on June 5, 2020, a student with whom “it had not been possible to establish communication” received the average of the first two grading periods for the third. The ministry would seek the student’s “continuity to the next grade.”
The rule that required 80 percent attendance for promotion did not apply that year.