WASHINGTON — School surveillance video has added a new layer of intrigue to the search for hundreds of SAT exams that went missing from a Loudoun County school.
Earlier this month, about 300 students at Broad Run High School in Ashburn, Virginia, took the SAT at the school, but the test takers didn’t learn until this week that the completed exams never arrived to the College Board.
Loudoun County Public Schools says the tests were sent off via UPS, but for some reason, the exams apparently never arrived at their destination. UPS made clear to WTOP that the shipment never entered its system.
Loudoun County Public School said Friday that surveillance video from Broad Run High School shows a UPS employee carrying the box — tracking number in view — containing the exams out of the building.
Reached by phone on Friday, UPS maintained the shipment in question was never scanned into its system. It has no record it was every picked up.
The school district is still trying to track down the SAT answer sheets and it believes at one time the shipment arrived in Texas.
While the search continues, students are preparing to retake the text June 20.
The College Board calls missing SAT exams a “rare occurrence.”
