Report 16.2: Students with Disabilities – Count by Federal Setting (Fall 1 - LEA) Retired as of 6/30/2023

(Updated as of 10/27/2022)

Description: Reports unduplicated counts of Students with Disabilities, and students evaluated for disabilities, within each Primary Disability Category by Federal Setting.

Report Type: Snapshot / Certification (Fall 1)

Security Roles: LEA - Level Fall 1 Reports Role

Data As Of: - Snapshot version Fall 1: Census Day

Basic selection criteria:

  • Students Included: Students with a qualifying enrollment who have an associated qualifying Special Education Record (SPED) at any time during the report period.

    • Qualifying Enrollment:

    • Most recent Open Enrollment at any time during the Report Period. The “most recent” SENR record is defined as the last enrollment based on the last Student Enrollment End Date on or after the report period start date. In cases where more than one SENR record overlap the reports period, priority is given to Primary Enrollments. In cases where more than one SENR record for a student with the same Enrollment Exit Date exists, use the top record ordered by descending order by Student Enrollment Start Date, Grade Level Code (sorted on reference key), and CDS.

    • Enrollment Status Code = Primary (10), Secondary (20), or Short-Term (30), and Non-ADA (50)

    • Default Grade Level = IN, TD, PS, KN-12

    • Qualifying Special Education (SPED) Record:

    • Most recent Special Education Program Record (Record Type = SPED) (based Special Education Meeting Date or Amendment Date (if populated)) overlapping the qualifying enrollment for the same reporting LEA

    • If a student has two active plans (i.e., a 150 and 100 or 100 and 200) only display information from most recent plan. If the student is not yet 3 and has 150 and 100 plan, then display the 150 plan information rather than 100 plan information.
    • Special Education Program Eligible (See CALPADS glossary: Special Education Program Eligible) during the Report Period (which defaults to the Fall 1 Report Period) (See CALPADS Glossary: Report Period)

    • Note: SPED records where Meeting Type Code = 40 (Eligibility Evaluation Meeting) are not brought into CALPADS reporting.

    • Student Information (SINF), Student Program (SPRG) and Student English Language Acquisition (SELA) and Foster Youth data used for selecting student subgroups (e.g. Race/Ethnicity, Homeless, EL, etc.) are selected from the most recent record that overlaps the qualifying enrollment

Note: In order for a student to appear in a particular SELPA count, they must have the SELPA code reported on the SPED record that overlaps the qualifying enrollment at the same reporting LEA as on the SPED record AND the SELPA code from the SPED record has a reporting relationship with the Reporting LEA.

Report Filters: Filters can be selected resulting in only totals for the selected filter being displayed – legend on bottom of last page of report states which filter/s were selected

  • Academic Year
  • LEA
  • Status
  • SELPA Code
  • Gender
  • Ethnicity/Race
  • Grade Level
  • Primary Disability Category
  • Education Plan Type
  • General Education Participation Percentage Range
  • English Language Acquisition Status
  • Socio-Economically Disadvantaged
  • Title 1 Part C Migrant
  • Homeless
  • Foster Youth
  • Student Age – Defaults to 0 – 22 (All)
  • User Comment

Report Logic

Report 16.2: Students with Disabilities – Count by Federal Setting

Column Rules
1 Reporting SELPA from SPED Field 14.15
2 Use data element name from CALPADS Security Model
3 Primary Disability Category code plus description.
4 Total unduplicated count of SSIDs at each aggregate level. If a student was reported under more than one disability category, count the student only once. If the student was reported under more than one school, count the student only once in this aggregate.
Note: students should be included in this count even if General Education Participation (14.34) is blank/null.
5 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 103
6 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 104
7 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 200
8 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 201
9 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 203
10 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 204
11 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 300
12 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 301
13 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 400
14 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 401
15 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 402
16 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 403
17 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 500
18 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 400 or 500 AND SPED Field 14.34 General Education Participation Range = 3
19 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 400 or 500 AND SPED Field 14.34 General Education Participation Range = 2
20 Unduplicated count of SSIDs within SPED Field 14.31 Special Education Program Setting Code = 400 or 500 AND SPED Field 14.34 General Education Participation Range = 1

Additional Resources

CALPADS File SpecificationsForm

Look for Special Education (SPED) tab for the fields indicated in the report logic.

CALPADS Special Education FAQ

List of frequently asked questions related to CALPADS Special Education reporting.

CALPADS Code Sets

This document contains the current code values referenced in the file specifications for the coded value data elements. The program code definitions are listed in this document.