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SELPA Report 7.17 Unilateral Removals for Students with Disabilities – Count

Updated as of 04/16/2025

Description: Reports the number of students with disabilities (by Primary Disability Category) who were removed from their regular instructional setting to an interim alternative setting for disciplinary reasons, regardless of enrollment status. It also reports the counts of removals to interim alternative setting by federal offense category by LEA for the SELPA.

Report Type: Snapshot / Certification (EOY 3)

Security Roles: SELPA Reports

Data As Of:

  • Snapshot version EOY 3: July 1 - June 30 of reporting year

Report Period:

  • Report Period (July 1 thru June 30 of the reporting year)

Basic Selection Criteria:

Students Included: Students with a qualifying enrollment who are Students with Disabilities on the incident date and who were involved in an incident at any time during the report period and were removed to an interim alternative setting as a result of the incident.

  • Qualifying Enrollment:

    • Enrollment Status Code = Primary Enrollment (10), Secondary Enrollment (20), Short Term Enrollment (30)
    • Grade Level = IN, PS KN, 01-12,

  • Qualifying SPED record:

    • Special Education Plan Type = IEP (100), IFSP (150) or ISP (200) AND
    • Plan Set Start Date <= Reporting Through (end) Date and either Plan Set has no End Date, or Plan Set Exit Date >= Reporting Period From (start) Date
      • Overlaps qualifying enrollment at the Reporting LEA from the qualifying SINC record using the Incident Occurrence Date

  • Qualifying SINC/SIRS Data:

    • Student Incident (SINC) for the Academic Year being reported
    • Student Incident Results (SIRS) for the Academic Year being reported
    • Removal to Interim Alternative Setting = Removal by Hearing Officer (1) or Removal by School Personnel (2)

  • Student Enrollment (SENR), Student Information (SINF), and Student Program (SPRG) data used for selecting student subgroups (e.g. Enrollment Status, Grade Level, Race/Ethnicity, Homeless, etc.) are selected from the most recent record that overlaps the qualifying enrollment

Note: - LEA Totals are only including aggregates from the students that belong to the SELPA

Report Filters: Filters can be selected resulting in only totals for the selected filter being displayed

  • Academic Year
  • SELPA
  • LEA
  • Status – since the LEA may have multiple revisions, the report will ONLY select that LEAs highest revision, thus appearing only ONCE for the SELPA, based on the filter section
  • Grade
  • Gender
  • Ethnicity/Race
  • Enrollment Status
  • Title I Part C Migrant
  • Socioeconomically Disadvantaged
  • English Language Acquisition Status
  • Foster Youth
  • Homeless Program Eligible
  • Armed Forces Family Member
  • Disability Category Code
  • Incident Result
  • Incident Result Duration
  • User Comment

Report Logic:


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Column Rules
1 SPED Field 14.04 Reporting LEA
2 LEA Name – use data element name from CALPADS Security Model
Links to SELPA Report 7.18 Incident Removals for Students with Disabilities – Student List
3 Revision ID (Certification Snapshot)
4 Revision Date (Certification Snapshot)
5 SPED Field 14.28 Disability Code 1
6 Total # of Students Removed to an Interim Alternative Setting (Unduplicated) – calculation: Unduplicated count of SSIDs within each disaggregated category at the Reporting LEA that have at least one Student Incident (SINC) record where:
• Removal to Interim Alternative Setting (SINC Field 18.17) = 1 or 2
• If a student is removed from their regular instructional setting in separate incidents, count the student only once within each disaggregated category.
7 # of Students Removed by a Hearing Officer (Unduplicated) – calculation: Unduplicated count of SSIDs within each disaggregated category at the Reporting LEA that have at least one Student Incident (SINC) record where:
• Removal to Interim Alternative Setting (SINC Field 18.17) = 1
• If a student is removed from their regular instructional setting in separate incidents, count the student only once within each disaggregated category.
8 # of Students Removed by School Personnel (Unduplicated) – calculation: Unduplicated count of SSIDs within each disaggregated category at the Reporting LEA that have at least one Student Incident (SINC) record where:
• Removal to Interim Alternative Setting (SINC Field 18.17) = 2
• If a student is removed from their regular instructional setting in separate incidents, count the student only once within each disaggregated category.
9 # of Drug-Related Offenses – calculation: Count of student offenses within each disaggregated category at the Reporting LEA where:
• Removal to Interim Alternative Setting (SINC Field 18.17) = 1 or 2 AND
• Student Offense Code (SOFF Field 20.14) = 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205 or 300
• If a student is removed to an interim alternative setting as a result of multiple drug-related offenses within the same incident, count each drug-related offense.
10 # of Weapon-Related Offenses – calculation: Count of student offenses within each disaggregated category at the Reporting LEA where:
• Removal to Interim Alternative Setting (SINC Field 18.17) = 1 or 2 AND
• Student Offense Code (SOFF Field 20.14) = 100, 101, 103, 104 or 105
• If a student is removed to an interim alternative setting as a result of multiple weapon-related offenses within the same incident, count each weapon-related offense.
11 # of Violent Incident (with Physical Injury) Offenses – calculation: Count of student offenses within each disaggregated category at the Reporting LEA where:
• Removal to Interim Alternative Setting (SINC Field 18.17) = 1 or 2 AND
• Student Offense Code (SOFF Field 20.14) = 400, 401, 500, 503, 504, 505 or 509
• If student is removed to an interim alternative setting as a result of multiple violent with injury-related offenses within the same incident, count each violent with injury-related offense.

Additional Resources

CALPADS File SpecificationsForm

Look for Incident files (SINC, SIRS, SOFF), Student Enrollment (SENR), Student Information (SINF) and Student Program (SPRG) tabs for the fields indicated in the report logic.

CALPADS Data Guide

Chapter 2.1.4 provides additional information on student incident.

CALPADS Code Sets

This document contains the current code values referenced in the file specifications for the coded value data elements.