WASHINGTON — The SATs that went missing from a Loudoun County high school were located at the school Monday after administrators initially said UPS carried the tests out of the building. 
 
 On May 2, about 300 students at Broad Run High School in Ashburn, Virginia, took the SAT at the school, and the test takers learned last 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. 
 
 Last week, the school said video surveillance showed a UPS employee carrying the box — tracking number in view — containing the exams out of the building. 
 
 That turned out not to be the case when all of the tests were located in the school’s shipping area Monday at about 11:30 a.m., says Loudoun County Public School Spokesman Wayde Byard. 
 
 “UPS did not lose this, and we apologize profoundly to UPS,” Byard said. 
 
 Byard says a mix up occurred when the boxes were moved from the school’s guidance office to the shipping area May 4. 
 
 “A box that looked like the one containing the tests, went out the door at 3 p.m. that day. Some time between 9 and 3, the box with the answers some how got on another cart,” Byard says. 
 
 Administrators though the box that left the building at 3 p.m. with UPS contained the answers, however, it stayed in the shipping area until it was located during a sweep Monday. 
 
 The tests have been secured and will now be shipped off to the College Board. 
 
 The students were given the option to retake the test in June, but now can avoid retaking it. 
 
 Byard says the school system will conduct an investigation into the loss of the tests and will review how it handles the delivery of tests. 
 
 WTOP’s Andrew Mollenbeck and Mike Murillo contributed to this report. 
 
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 © 2015 WTOP. All Rights Reserved. ||||| Over 200 students in Loudoun County are breathing a sigh of relief after their missing SAT tests were found Monday morning. 
 
 Schools officials say a sealed box containing 236 answer sheets was found on the bottom shelf of a cart in the shipping area of Broad Run High School. 
 
 The school has been searching for the tests for about a month. Wayde Byard, a spokesman for Loudoun County Public Schools, says that after the May 2 exam, the sealed box was locked in the Guidance Office at Broad Run. At 9:07 a.m., the box and four other boxes were moved to the shipping area, where they were going to be shipped to Educational Testing Services (ETS). 
 
 School officials are not sure what happened to the tests next, but they are looking into how the box ended up on the cart. 
 
 An ETS representative was at the school when the tests were found and will take the box to an ETS facility in Princeton, New Jersey. The school says the tests will be validated, and the affected students will not have to retake the exam. ||||| A generic standardized test form. (Photo: AP) 
 
 ASHBURN, Va.(WUSA9) -- Nearly a month after some SAT tests disappeared, Loudoun County school officials say they were discovered in a cart at the same school where students took the test. 
 
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 When the tests did not make it to the College Board on time, officials had they had video showing the tests were picked up by UPS. 
 
 Monday, a spokesperson for Loudoun County Public Schools says the SAT Tests that went missing on May 2 were found at Broad Run High School in Ashburn, the school where students took the test. The tests were at the bottom of a cart in the same package they were supposed to be delivered to UPS, according to the spokesperson. 
 
 The tests were hand-carried Monday to the College Board in Princeton, New Jersey, says the spokesperson, and it looks like they are going to be validated. 
 
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– A month after 236 SATs went missing, school officials in Loudoun County, Va., found the tests yesterday—and they weren't exactly in the hands of UPS as the school had initially claimed, reports NBC Washington. Rather, they were neatly boxed up sitting in a cart in Broad Run High School's shipping area—presumably a place where one would have thought to look before telling students they might face a retake. "UPS did not lose this, and we apologize profoundly to UPS," says a school rep, per WTOP. The rep says some mix-up happened when the exams were moved from the guidance office; the school had claimed it had video of a UPS employee carrying the box, but it was actually "a box that looked like the one containing the tests [that] went out the door at 3pm that day," the rep says. The tests were being hand-delivered to the College Board in Princeton, NJ, notes WUSA, and it appears they'll be validated.