Missing Broad Run SATs Are Found: Media Report

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Last week, students at Broad Run High School in Ashburn were told they would have to retake their SAT exams after their completed exams went missing.

Those SATs were supposed to be shipped via UPS to the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the organization that administers the college entrance exam. But when the box containing the exams didn’t arrive at its destination in Texas, UPS and the Loudoun County Public Schools pointed fingers of blame at each other.

On Monday, however, the missing exams were found - they had never left the high school, according to radio station WTOP.

Wayde Byard, a spokesman for the Loudoun school system, said Monday that the missing exams were located at about 11:30 a.m. on a mail cart at Broad Run. “They were supposed to be sent to Austin, Texas, but they never left the building,” he said.

Personnel from ETS took possession of the tests and will transport them to Princeton, N.J., where they will be graded, Byard said.

The 263 Broad Run students who took the SATs on May 2 faced the difficult prospect of retaking them on June 20, in the midst of the high school’s final exams. But ”preliminary indicators are that they won’t have to retake the test,” Byard said.