CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) announced this week that TNReady test scores will not be included in final grades.

CMCSS said the state did not meet the required timeline to return scores.

TNReady is part of TCAP, the state’s assessments in math, English language arts, social studies, and science.

This is not the first time the state has had issues with the standardized test format. Last year the state terminated a contract with a testing company following repeated failures with the rollout of TNReady, then hired Pearson Education to have it score the TNReady assessments.

CMCSS spokesperson Elise Shelton said that last year, the state allowed local school boards the opportunity to not count the quick scores (scores that are required by law that come back to schools prior to school ending) as part of a student’s grade if the scores could not be received by the districts within five days before the end of the school year.

Shelton because this has happened to CMCSS for the past two years, the quick scores have not been included.

This year, the state gave a longer window for testing that allowed students to only take one subtest a day rather than more subtests in one day. Shelton said CMCSS chose the option of taking fewer subtests tests on one day because it would be less of an interruption for students.

According to Shelton, the district completed all testing within the state’s allowed testing window and shipped the materials based on the schedule provide by the testing company.

“The turnaround time for the testing company for shipping, scoring, and sending the data for the district to check for demographic accuracy is not long enough for our district to receive the quick score reports and get them on the report cards,” Shelton said in an official statement. “At this time, our tests are being scored. Both the district and the state have met timelines, but the timeline is just not long enough for the complete process to take place.”

These quick score results are not the scores used for planning for students by schools, Shelton noted.

The scores that provide the academic growth and the level of mastery of learning of the content by the student are provided in the fall.

“There is no indication that these scores will not be received in the fall,” Shelton said.