Donny & Sandy Ball's Bayside School Services offers the best nationally standardized tests, available all year. As graduated homeschooling parents, we know how important fair prices, ease of ordering, accurate order processing, and prompt mailing of results can be.

Our test prices include shipping, handling, scoring, and FREE practice exercises for ALL grades where available. We offer special pricing for group orders. Our goal is to give you the best overall test value.

You can email your order and pay with PayPal. Click to visit their site and sign up for this easy to use service. Then click on Send Money. orders@baysideschoolservices.com is the email address to use. Include your order details (name, address, telephone number, grade level, test type, and accessories, if any) in the note section. You don’t need to send a separate email. We will acknowledge your order so you’ll know everything is OK.

You choose the week to administer the tests. We send the test material to arrive by the Saturday before your selected week. At the end of your test week, return everything, and we send the test results, usually within 8 weeks.

Qualified home school teachers can administer these tests. If you are capable of teaching your child, you should be able to test your child. However, if your state requires it, or if you don't feel comfortable doing it, you can get someone to administer the tests for you. It is legal to administer the tests yourself in North Carolina. Testing is not difficult. With the Bayside system, you may find you actually enjoy it!

If you need help preparing your student, we wrote the books! Our optional, but very useful Guidebooks tell you the test sections, number of questions, time limits, and what skills are tested for each grade. For example, your second grader needs to know how to select a synonym, an antonym, and be able to multiply single digit numbers. Those are just 3 of the 75 Grade 2 skills we list for the CAT/5!

Along with testing services and guidebooks, we have some other fun products. Sandy researched and wrote a great little book about women and natural hormones. An international award winning artist, she created a wonderful coloring book, The ART of the ALPHABET. She relays to us the honest-to-goodness story of the real Easter Bunny, as told to her by Wellington Rabbit himself. And there's more! See the Books and Accessories page for details.

We are glad we can help our homeschool friends and neighbors with achievement testing. As homeschoolers from 1988 until May, 2000, we are glad to be able to encourage you in this wonderful adventure. We want you to have a great testing experience, and we’ll do whatever we can to help you. We tried to make this information self-explanatory and complete. If you have questions, email if possible, or call if you cannot email, but PLEASE, read everything first!