Post-School Outcomes 

Federal Requirements 

The monitoring priorities and indicators of the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) State Performance Plan (SPP) mandate the gathering of data on the post-school activities of individual exiting special education. The SPP Monitoring Priority Indicator 14 for post-school transition is defined as “the percent of youth who had IEPs, are no longer in secondary school and who have been competitively employed, enrolled in some type of post-school, or both, within one year of leaving high school timing the data collection so that at least one year has passed since the student left school,” The specific reporting practices require that we “address all youth who left school, including those who graduated, dropped out and aged out”.  

 

To meet the requirements of the SPP, the Post-School Outcomes survey is completed one year after the student left school. A list of students and their basic demographic information is available in the Post-School Outcomes application the February following the student leaving high school. The list of students comes from the LEA’s last submitted Student Record data, June of the prior year. 

 

In the SE application Post-School Outcomes, the LEA will need to download the file and prepare to locate each student during the February to May window. The Post-School Outcomes’ survey opens in May, one year after the student exited the LEA, and the LEA has until July 31st to complete the survey for all students listed. The survey requires the LEA to select the most applicable post-school activity for each student.  

 

You must be provisioned in the role of Special Education Director to submit the survey. If you need guidance regarding the options, please contact your District Liaison (DL). If you have difficulty submitting your information, write a help ticket in the SE application dashboard in the Contact State tab.  

 

Data Source 

To create the Post School Outcome list that is shared with LEAs in the SE application dashboard each February, GaDOE uses the Student Record file submitted in June of the prior school year to create the initial list of exiters. Then GaDOE cross-checks the list with the FTE-1 submission to remove any students that have re-enrolled and add any students who exited prior to June 30th but were not reported in the prior year SR submission such as summer graduates.