College Station school board members have the results of the first year of bringing back random drug testing for high school students.

Almost 2,800 high school students qualified because they were involved in extracurricular activities or received a parking permit.

Parents also had the option of enrolling their children, but board members were told no parents signed up their children.

Between October 2018 and May 2019, testing was done on 426 students. That's 15 percent of those who qualified.

Out of 426, 12 tested positive. Four of those 12 tested positive twice. And two of those four tested positive a third time. Administrators did not have the number of students who tested positive for prescribed drugs.

CSISD superintendent Clark Ealy and chief administrative officer, Molley Perry, fielded a variety of questions. Topics ranged from student privacy and security to detecting prescribed drugs, to the consequences after positive tests were discovered, to the feedback of campus administrators.

Board members approved administrator recommendations for the second year of the program that includes extending the testing from August to late April or early May, obtaining consent electronically as part of the registration process for students in grades 9-12, and continue ongoing collaboration with the test vendor and campus administrators.