STAAR Alternate 2 is administered on paper, and student responses must be submitted through RE. For the 2025–26 school year, the five-week test administration window for STAAR Alternate 2 is March 16–April 17, 2026. District coordinators should establish a local schedule to administer STAAR Alternate 2 during the testing window. TEA highly recommends that district coordinators plan to test and submit data early in the testing window to ensure that all students have an opportunity to test in case of technical, weather, or emergency issues and to allow for make-up testing. District coordinators should reserve the last week of the testing window to ensure that all eligible students have been tested, that all student responses are submitted in RE, and that score codes and accommodations are entered in TIDE. All assessments must be completed and processed in the system and all students must be accounted for in the system by 11:59 p.m. (CT) on April 17.

STAAR Alternate 2 is administered individually in a one-on-one setting. District testing 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, district testing personnel 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, district testing personnel must offer a make-up testing opportunity. District testing 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.