PowerSchool SIS Alabama

State Reporting 26.7.1.0 Release Notes

A release announcement will be posted on PowerSchool Customer Central when the installer is available for download. Refer to 2026 State Reporting Releases for release dates.

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Summary

Release Note

PSSR-435730

Academic and Career Plan Updates: Credential Code Length Validation

The Credential code length in the Academic and Career Plan system has been updated to support up to 10 characters, with a restriction applied to limit the field value to 5 characters for AL which matches the existing functionality

PSSR-381128

All States: Change history for Student Programs

Change History functionality is now available on the Student Programs page, enabling tracking of updates to key fields.

A new category has been added to the Student Program Change History page to monitor changes to Entry Date, Exit Date, SP Comment, Program, Exit Reason, and Grade Level.

Note: This functionality is not applicable to the State-specific Student Program pages.

PSSR-437955

All States: NCEA 2026-2027 Data collection Updates

Additional Reference: PSSR-437527

The NCEA data collection has received the following updates to conform to the 26-27 specifications.
Updated Screens

  • School Management → Academics → School Information for NCEA Reporting

  • District Management → District Setup → General → District Information for NCEA Reporting

Following New Fields has been added

  • Building Type (Added for School Information data collection)

    • Early Childhood Center

    • Elementary

    • Secondary

    • (P)K - 12

      Note: This field must be populated in order for that building to be represented in the report output. In addition to this new field, updates have been made to existing district-level data elements so they can be populated for each of the four Building Type values.

  • To the best of your knowledge, of the principals not returning, how many are remaining in Catholic education? (Added for Diocese Information screen)

    • This data is to be populated for each of the four Building Type values.

  • Reason for Superintendent Change (Added for Diocese Information data collection)

    • This question is added to the existing question, if the diocese hired a new superintendent since last year is Yes

  • To the best of your knowledge, of the teachers not returning, how many are remaining in Catholic education? (Added for School Information data collection)

  • Number of students who were newly baptized Catholic or received full communion during the 2025-2026 school year. Exclude students already baptized Catholic who completed first communion or confirmation (Added for School Information data collection)

PSSR-435725

Athlete value retention during Student Transfer

The Athlete value on the AL custom page is retained when a student is transferred out of the school, and this behavior is now fixed.

PSSR-433862

Date validation Updates for Graduation Pathway History and Non-Traditional Student Type History pages

Future date validation has been removed from start and end date fields on Graduation Pathway History and Non-Traditional Student Type History pages.

PSSR-435726

Seal of Biliteracy Assessment Updates

The Date Completed label on the Assessment entry for the Seal of Biliteracy has been updated to Test Date, and the four domain fields have been changed to dropdowns linked to the same Biliteracy code set as the Composite Score field.