CALPADS Student Program Utility

Introduction

CALPADS Student Program records are specific to a student's enrollment at a particular school. As such, when a student changes schools or exits and returns to the same school, previous program participation or eligibility records must be ended and new program records created. The CALPADS Student Program Utility runs for active students in the school or district at the time the report is run, ending previous program records and creating new records for the programs indicated at runtime. The output is comma delimited for data analysis prior to writing the records to the database. The CALPADS Student Program Utility should always be run in proposal mode prior to writing to the database.

IMPORTANT: An accurate School Entry Date must be populated on all enrollment records prior to running this report. Inaccurate or missing School Entry Dates can cause program records to be populated with incorrect Program Membership Start and End Dates or excluded. Special attention should be paid to the School Entry Dates if this report is run after the PowerSchool End of Year process. It's no longer necessary to run the Update School Mobility Script prior to this report to populate the School Entry Date. This function can still be utilized, but it is not mandatory.

Selection Criteria

Student Selection

The following students are processed:

• Students active or pre-enrolled at report runtime.

• Students not excluded from state reporting.

• Students enrolled in a school and not excluded from state reporting.

• Students with a current enrollment and not excluded from state reporting.

• Students with a current enrollment that has School Entry Date populated with an accurate date.

• Students with a current enrollment.
  Note: No-shows are excluded (enrollment start date equals enrollment exit date).

• Students that have program records from previous enrollments for which the report is being run.

Program Selection

New Program records are created for the following:

• Students that meet the selection criteria above.

• Program records that exist with a blank Program Membership End Date or an End Date that is in the future for the most recent previous student school enrollment that is not excluded.

• Program records selected at report run time.

• Program records that have not already been created for the new enrollment.

• Program service records that exist for a qualifying Title I (122) program, if program 122 is selected at runtime.

Existing Program records are ended for the following:

• Students that meet the selection criteria above.

• Program records selected at report run time.

• Program records that do not have a Program Membership End Date populated.

• Program participation records with dates that correspond to a student's school enrollment.

• Program service records that exist for a qualifying Title I (122) program, if program 122 is selected at runtime.

Note: To ensure the program student table values stay in sync with the CALPADS programs, it is recommended to run the Update Student Program Fields report after your new program records are created.

Report Input

This report is run at the District and School level.

For help with navigation and running the report, see How to Find and Generate a Report.

Report Output

Each of the fields displayed in the output of the report are described below. See  Understanding the Report Output Tables for a definition of each column in the table.

Note: If the report is run for a subset of programs, only the fields pertaining to the programs selected will be displayed.

Report Output Format: The report output format for this report is comma delimited.

Note: The CALPADS Student Program Utility has been updated to include the programs which is outside the students' current enrolment date range and without an end date (but within the school year).