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Secondary-Level Students


All public and charter school general-education students and students with disabilities in grades 9–12, or ungraded students of equivalent age, must be reported in SIRS.
High-School-Age LEP Students with Low Literacy Level on First Arrival in the United States

When a school first enrolls a high-school-age student who is non-English speaking, who is newly arrived in the United States, and whose level of literacy in his or her native language is low, school administrators may have difficulty determining the student’s correct grade placement. Schools are allowed at least one year to determine the appropriate grade level of LEP students meeting these criteria. Upon enrollment, the school should assign the student to a grade level based on the administrator’s best judgment. This temporary grade level should be reported in the first year of enrollment if the student has not yet been enrolled a full academic year. Before the end of the second year of enrollment, the school must evaluate the student and determine the appropriate grade level based on the student’s scheduled course work for the next semester.

The school should determine the year of first entering grade 9 from the grade level assigned to the student before the end of the second year of enrollment. For example, if a student’s instructional grade level before the end of the second year of enrollment is determined to be grade 10, the student will be considered to have first entered grade 9 in the previous school year. If a student’s instructional grade level before the end of the second year of enrollment is determined to be grade 9, the student will be judged to have first entered grade 9 in the current school year. The initial, temporary grade level should not be used to determine the year of first entering grade 9. The year of first entering grade 9 may be changed if the grade placement reported the previous year was determined to be incorrect. If, in the second year, a student is assigned to a grade below 9 and is enrolled in a school serving students below grade 9, the students will be recorded as first entering grade 9 when they are next enrolled in grade 9. Schools may change a student’s reported year of first entering grade 9 only once.
Grade 9 Students Whose Grade Is Changed to Grade 8 or Lower

If a student is initially reported as in Grade 9 but the grade is subsequently changed to Grade 8 or lower, all of the enrollment records for the student for the school year in which the grade level changed that indicated that the student was in Grade 9 must be revised to indicate the new grade identification. In addition, the Date of Entry into Grade 9 must be eliminated for the student.


Students Over 21 Years of Age


Students who turn 21 during a school year should be reported in SIRS. If students attend summer school immediately following the school year in which they turn 21, they should be reported in SIRS. Records for these students should not be reported in SIRS after they complete this school year or summer school term.

Students with Disabilities


Each public school district must report special-education records as well as demographic, enrollment, program service, special-education snapshot records for all students for whom they have CSE or CSPE responsibility. Each public school district has CSE responsibility for students with disabilities parentally placed in nonpublic schools located within their district and for providing special-education services to those students. Districts must submit all required special-education records for these students.

Every institution with CSE or CPSE responsibility for preschool or school-age children must report special-education records for those children regardless of where they attend school or receive services.

Reporting responsibility for students with disabilities in specific scenarios can be found in the “Table of Reporting Responsibility for School-Age Students” and the “Table of Reporting Responsibility for Preschool-Age and Prekindergarten Students” sections above. Reporting requirements for students with disabilities are available at the “PD Data System” link at http://www.p12.nysed.gov/sedcar/.

All students classified as disabled in the current school year must have a disability type record, identifying the student’s particular disability. All students identified as disabled at any time during the school year will be included in the students with disability group for accountability purposes. See “Type of Disability” in “Program Service Codes and Descriptions” in Chapter 5: Codes and Descriptions.


Enrollment Record for Student with Disabilities (Special Guidance)

  • Public school districts that have CSE or CPSE only responsibility must use Reason for Beginning Enrollment Codes 5905 and 4034 and Reason for Ending Enrollment Codes 8305 and 140, respectively, exclusively for students with disabilities or students who are referred to the CSE or CPSE for determination of eligibility for special-education services. For more information, see Chapter 5: Codes and Descriptions.

Preschool and school-age students with disabilities must be reported using the following BEDS codes as Location Codes (or Building Enrollment Codes):

  • Report preschool children with disabilities who are enrolled in Pre-K or UPK programs with the BEDS code of the building in which the program is operated. Report preschool children enrolled in a UPK program operated by entities other than the school district or a BOCES with the first eight digits of the district BEDS followed by “0666” as the last four digits.

  • Report preschool children with disabilities who are not enrolled in Pre-K or UPK programs with the BEDS code of the coordinating special-education provider (if more than one provider is involved) or the sole special-education service provider (if only one provider is involved). Only BEDS codes of approved special-education service providers may be used. If the student is not receiving special-education services from employees of an approved special-education service provider, use the code of the county that is providing the service by contracting with an independent service provider.

  • Report school-age students with disabilities with the BEDS code of the building in which the students are enrolled for the majority of the school day.

  • Report students with disabilities enrolled in BOCES-operated education programs with the BEDS code of the BOCES, not the BEDS code of the building in which the BOCES program is located.

  • Report students with disabilities who are placed by the district in a public school outside their district of residence and students who are placed by the district in a BOCES program in or outside of their district of residence with the BEDS code of the district of residence for the District of Responsibility BEDS Code. Students who are placed in a public school outside their district of residence must be reported using the BEDS code of the school where the student is enrolled in the location field (i.e., under the data element Building of Enrollment BEDS Code).

For more information about reporting students with disabilities, contact the Special Education Team of Information and Reporting Services by phone at (518) 486-4678 or by e-mail at dataquest@mail.nysed.gov.


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