What’s New for the Alternate ELPAC in 2026–27?

Summative Alternate ELPAC

  • The in-test survey administered as segments 1 and 3 has been removed from the Summative Alternate ELPAC.

Accessibility Resources

  • Non-embedded sensory items is now a designated support (rather than an accommodation).

Completion Status System

  • The user interface has been refreshed.

Test Operations Management System

  • US School Entry Date has been added as a field that is locked at the time of the student’s first Summative ELPAC, or Summative Alternate ELPAC, or CAASPP testing start event.
  • The Demographic Error testing issue, a path in STAIRS, allows LEAs that have tested students with incorrect demographics on their TOMS profile a chance to reset a test and allow a correction to be made.