District of Residence
District of Residence Code
Q. Are all the students who are identified as receiving special education services at a county office of education (COE) required to have a county-district (CD) code for district of residence?
A. All of the students who are in a special education program (but not in court schools or other non-special education programs) should have a CD code for district of residence coded on their answer document (section 20 of the 2006 STAR Program student answer document). However, the student answer documents for these students should be submitted under the School and Grade Identification Sheets (SGIDs) for the COE school or program where the student receives services.
Students Outside the COE
Q. Our COE receives Average Daily Attendance (ADA) funding for several special education students from outside our county who were placed into a group home in our county and enrolled in a nonpublic school in our county. What CD code should be used for the district of residence for these students?
A. Because the student was placed in a group home, the responsibility rests with the COE, and the COE should be coded as the district of residence.
Where Scores Are Counted
Q. We have some students enrolled in a COE special education program. All of these students take the California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA). For AYP and API, will these students' scores be included in the COE results or in our school district results for 2006?
A. The test scores at the school level will remain with the COE school report but will roll back into the school district of residence totals for the Local Educational Agency (LEA) report. This procedure, implemented beginning in 2005, was necessary to comply with NCLB requirements. All of these students counted towards the 1.0 percent cap for CAPA on the school district's 2006 AYP Report.
There is one exception to this rule. If the student was placed by the court in the COE program, the student is to be reported as residing in the LEA where the student is placed. Therefore, the district of residence on the student's answer document should be blank, and the student's results would be included in the COE's LEA report.
