STAAR Alternate 2 is administered on paper, and student responses must be submitted through DEI. For the 2024–2025 school year, the five-week test administration window for STAAR Alternate 2 is March 17–April 18, 2025. Each district should establish a local schedule to administer STAAR Alternate 2 during the testing window. District personnel should plan to test students during the first four weeks of the testing window and reserve the last week to submit data in DEI, enter score codes and non-embedded supports in TIDE, and verify that all students have been accounted for by 11:59 p.m. (CT) on April 18.

STAAR Alternate 2 is administered individually in a one-on-one setting. District personnel should determine the appropriate number of days to test an individual student to accommodate the student’s needs. No more than the equivalent of one assessment should be administered per day to an individual student taking STAAR Alternate 2. If a student completes an assessment in one day, the student should not start another assessment that same day.

Make-up Testing

Since STAAR Alternate 2 assessments are administered during a five-week window, districts should offer make-up opportunities to students who were absent on their scheduled assessment day. For students who are absent to observe a religious holy day, districts must offer a make-up testing opportunity. District personnel must maintain the security of the assessments during make-up testing to ensure that the test content remains valid throughout the testing window. 

Students Who Become Sick During an Assessment

A student who becomes sick and leaves campus during the assessment may complete the assessment, as needed, on a different day within the scheduled testing window.