Glossary

(Updated 11/4/2024)

This page captures terms and business rules that are used in various CALPADS System Design documents. It is intended to eliminate the need to define common terms and rules in numerous documents.

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A

Absence Rate

Academic Year

Active Enrollment

Active Plan

Accountability Subgroup Data

Amendment Date Student Age

Administrator

Armed Forces Family Member

At Risk School (At Risk of Becoming Persistently Dangerous)

B

C

CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION (CHSPE)

Career Technical Education (CTE) Completer

Career Technical Education (CTE) Concentrator

Career Technical Education (CTE) Course

Career Technical Education (CTE) Non-Completer Participant

Career Technical Education (CTE) Nontraditional CourseEnrollment

Career Technical Education (CTE) Participant

Career Technical Education (CTE) Postsecondary Articulated

Chronic Absentee

Course Section Completion

Census Day

Chronic Absenteeism

Class

Class Enrollment

Cohort, English Learner

Cohort, Homeless Program Eligible

Cohort, Students with Disabilities

Cohort, Title I Part C Migrant Eligible

Completer, Successful HS

Content Area

County Office of Education School (COE School)

Course Completion

Course, Departmentalized

Course Section Enrollment

Cumulative Enrollment

Current Enrollment

D

Determinations

Directly Certified

Disadvantaged Student Data in Calpads

District of Special Education Accountability

Dropouts-Count

Dropouts–LEA View Data

E

Economically Disadvantaged Subgroup

Educational Options

English Language Acquisition Status Count

English Learner

English Learner Education Services

English Learner Instructional Plan

English Learner Subgroup

Exceptions

F

Fluent English Proficient(FEP)

Foster Youth

Full Time Equivalent (FTE)

G

GED

Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Subgroup

Graduates

H

I

Incident Most Severe Offense

J

K

L

Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)

Limited English Proficient (LEP) Subgroup

M

Meeting Date Student Age

Met UC/CSU Requirements

Middle School Core Setting

Misassignment

N

Non-Classroom Support

O

Open Enrollment

P

Persistently Dangerous Offense

Plan Set

Plan Set Start Date

Plan Set End Date

Primary Language

Proving EL Education Services

Pupil Services

Q

R

Race/Ethnicity (Current Federal Definition)

Race/Etnicity (Federal Definition used on Reports prior to AY 2016-17)

Reclassified Fluent English Proficient (RFEP) Count

Report Date

Report Period

S

Staff/ Staff Member

Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Subgroup

Special Education Program Eligible

Students with Disabilities

Special Education Certificate of Completion

T

Teacher

Title I Part A Basic School-wide School

Title I Part C Migrant Subgroup

Title III Eligible Immigrants Subgroup

Tribal Foster Youth

U

V

W

X

Y

Z