We may need to find two types of private school situations in SIRAS.
- Students who are active on an ISP now and participating.
- Students who live in the district, attend a private school but are not participating.
If you are doing research for proportionate share, please click HERE for important information on how the below queries can be used.
How to find the predefined queries.
- Click on the Search button
- Then click on predefined queries
- Then open up the 'Other Queries' section
- Click the button appropriate for the research you are doing.
Private/Parochial School Type or ISP Plan Type
The intent of this button is two fold:
- Find students who are already active on ISP as of today the day you run the report.
- Find students who appear to be in a private school scenario based on school type/attending indicating private school.
Students in group 2 have had a private school school type in place, they may or may not have plan type as ISP.
If a student has been given a private school attending because they are enrolled at a private school but the student is not participating on an IEP plan as indicated by the plan type still being IEP may need to be investigated further as to why the conflicting data entry.
Please research the students in this list for accuracty of data entry.
If a student was participating on IEP and now is not participating because they are enrolled in a private school, these students should have been made inactive as cessation of services or parent withdrawal, based on what happened at the time participation stopped.
This button is not intended to take the place of using CALPADS 16.14 for finding non participating students during the most recent academic year.
It's intent is for data monitoring of 'private school' students based on data entry that implies they may be in a 'private school' scenario.
Local data entry varies from LEA to LEA.
Private School Follow-up
The intent of this button is:
- Find students eligible for IEP but are still not participating in the last 3 academic years.
Student in this list will need to be reviewed by inactive date so we don't get duplicate counts of those found in the EOY4 report of the most recent academic year 2023-2024.
Private/Parochial School Type or ISP Plan Type:
This button will find all 'active' records in SIRAS that:
Have plan type ISP
or
Private School 'related' School Type
Since each district codes 'private school' students their own way it will be up to the district to interpret and clean up the data they find here to represent only students who are truly 'active' on an ISP plan.
PRO TIP: Run a plan type by School and Plan Type predefined 'by school' statistical report after running this list
Suggestions on how to code 'private school' SIRAS records can be found HERE (TBD)
Private School Follow-up:
This button will find all 'inactive' records in SIRAS that have inactive dates going back 3 academic years where the inactive reason is:
Eligible No Plan - Declined FAPE [11]
or
Cessation of services but retains eligibility [29]
AND
'Current Enrollment: 'Public/Private' has been selected as Private. (as of 5/12/2025 blank = private, this is ok)
For students who have stopped participating but are still enrolled in a public school, this option should be set to Public.
Limitations on follow up query:
It is possible that some students with declining FAPE or cessation of services are actually enrolled in a public school.
At this time it would be up to the LEA to find those corner cases by comparing SIS enrollment data to these lists generated by SIRAS.
SIRAS is considering adding extra non CALPADS versions of Non participation reason 11 and 29 related to these two non participation reasons when the student is not participating but actually enrolled in public school. These are rare but should be accounted for when doing proportionate share research.
