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Student Daily Attendance Report

For each student who meets the report criteria, the Student Daily Attendance Report provides an attendance record that indicates attendance status and modality for each day of course enrollment.

The report setup must be completed prior to running the report, refer to Student Daily Attendance Setup.

Selection Criteria

Selection criteria determine which database records are used in the report. Refer to selection criteria for analysis when the report does not return the correct records.

Student Selection

  • Student must be enrolled in any class at least one day between the Report Start Date and the Report End Date to display on this report.

  • Student must not be enrolled in Special Program at another school (placement code of SS - Separate School in the Special Education Programs settings).

  • Student must not be excluded from state reporting.

  • School must not be excluded from state reporting.

School Selection

  • The student's school must not be excluded from state reporting.

Report Input

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

Field

Description

Select Schools*

Indicate which schools to include in the report by selecting from the following options:

If sub-districts are not enabled:

  • Current School Only – Includes all student records associated with the current school that meet the selection criteria. To change the current school, click School at the top of the page and choose the appropriate school from the list.

  • District Wide – Includes all student records on the PowerSchool server that meet the selection criteria.

  • Default

If sub-districts are enabled:

  • Select Sub-district - Select the sub-district for which you want to run the report.

  • Current School Only – Run the report for only the current selected school. Includes all student records associated with the selected schools that meet the selection criteria.

  • All Schools in selected sub-district (default) – Run the report for all schools in the selected sub-district. Includes all student records on the PowerSchool server that meet the selection criteria.

Students to Include*

Indicate which students to include in the report by selecting one of the following options:

  • The selected [number] students only – Run the report for students in the current selection.

  • All students – Run the report for all students in the current school or district that meet the selection criteria.

If running the report for a single student, or group of students, select the students prior to running the report.


Start Date*

Select the Start Date for the report.

End Date*

Select the End Date for the report.

Include Students Name In Output File*

Select Yes from the pop-up menu to include the names of students in the output file. Select No to exclude student names.

Report Output

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

Data Element

Description

[Table]FieldName

Data Type

Field Length

Last Name

The student's last name.

[Students]Last_Name

String

20

First Name

The student's first name.

[Students]First_Name

String

20

Middle Name

The student's middle name.

[Students]Middle_Name

String

15

SAU ID

The NEO Organization ID for the attending School Administrative Unit (SAU).

This is the SAU ID used for uploading the student's data to Synergy.

The district number on import must match the district number tied to the student’s enrollment. If they do not match, the following error message appears: “Student does not have an enrollment in this SAU ID, School ID, and school year.”


[Prefs]Name = ME_SAUID
[Prefs]Value

If sub-districts are enabled:

[CST_SubDistricts]Subdistrict_Number

String

4

State Student ID

The student's state ID.

The student's state ID must match the existing state ID for the student; otherwise, the following error message appears: "There are currently no students enrolled with this state ID."


[Students]State_StudentNumber

Numeric

9

School ID

NEO Organization ID for the school the student attends.

The school ID must match the school number of the school in which the student is enrolled for the year. If they do not match, the following error appears: “Student does not have an enrollment in this SAU Id, School ID, and school year.”


[S_ME_SCH_X]StateSchoolNumber

If sub-districts are enabled:

[CST_SchoolSubDistricts]SchoolID


Numeric

4

Year Code

The school year designation. For example, 2020-2021.

Calculated

Numeric

9

Date

The date for which the attendance is being reported (YYYYMMDD).

[ATTENDANCE]Att_date

Date

8

Attendance Status

The status of the reported date.

Valid values:

  • Present

  • Excused Absence

  • Unexcused Absence

This field depends on the use of the pre-loaded Absent attendance codes for ME state reporting, UNEXABS_ME and EXCUSAB_ME. The use of local codes is not supported.


[ATTENDANCE]Att_code

Period Attendance: Present >=50% scheduled periods;

< 50% then student is absent; else if override is set, 50% then Present

Daily Attendance: Att Code EA or UA or blank (present)

If override is set, code value >=.5 present else the attendance code status is reported (EA or UA)

String

11

Modality

The mode of instructional delivery for the student on the reported date.

Valid values:

  • FacetoFace

  • Remote

Note: Determined by Attendance Category for the assigned code.

[ATTENDANCE]Att_category


String

9


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