Scheduling TELPAS Alternate Test Administrations

TELPAS Alternate is a holistic inventory for which observational ratings must be submitted in RE. For the 2025–26 school year, the six-week test administration window for TELPAS Alternate is February 16–March 27, 2026. District coordinators should establish a local schedule to administer TELPAS Alternate during the testing window. TEA highly recommends that district coordinators plan to complete holistic ratings and submit data early in the testing window to ensure that all students have an opportunity to be rated in case of technical, weather, or emergency issues. District coordinators should reserve the last week of the testing window to ensure that all eligible students have been rated, that all Observable Behavior ratings are submitted in RE, and that all student information, including score codes and years in U.S. schools, are submitted 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 March 27.