State Reporting 26.7.1.0 Release Notes

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-429721

Discontinue synergy upload functionality

Synergy upload functions have been removed, and the setup page includes a message indicating that access to Synergy is no longer active, with submissions directed to Connect.

PSSR-437903

Economic eligibility start date update

The label for Economic Eligibility Start Date includes the word override, and an information icon clarifies that entering a value overrides the student's entry date.

PSSR-437902

SIF: Logic Update for Student Participation Object - Economic Status Start Date

The Student Participation Object logic is updated for the Economic Status Start Date element. If the student does not have a value in the Economic Status Start Date field on the Student Lunch page, the entry date for the enrollment is used as the Economic Status Start Date. Students.EntryDate / ReEnrollment.EntryDate must be populated with the expected value to be reported. Note: Economic Status Start Date continues to be the primary data entry point for this element.

PSSR-404509

Student Enrollment Report: Update to Multiple Enrollments for Students (2026-2027)

Student Enrollment Report 2.4

Students with multiple enrollments (reenrollments, school transfers, same-school segment changes) will appear on multiple CSV rows.

PSSR-436302

Student school enrollment data update

SPED and ECON data fields are no longer included in the Student School Enrollment object for ME SIF data publishing.