PIMS Manual_Vol 1_V1.0 - Sayre Area School District

Pennsylvania Information
Management System
Pennsylvania
Department of Education
This truancy definition distinguishes between all absences and unlawful absences because the latter are more likely to indicate school and student
problems. An unlawful absence is an absence for part of a school day (i.e., at least one class period) or a full day for which a parent or guardian has
not indicated in writing that the student is away from school for valid reasons (e.g., illness, medical/dental appointment, funeral of an immediate
relative). Suspensions and expulsions are not to be considered as unlawful absences.
PDE will use this data to calculate a truancy rate for each school and LEA. The truancy rate calculation is shown below.
TRUANCY RATE =
Number of habitual truants
Count of student membership X 100
See the template specifications below and Appendix AA in Volume 2 of the PIMS User Manual for more information.
Indication of No Reportable School Safety Incidents for a School Notes
Reportable School Safety incidents are to be submitted in detail in the Discipline Domain templates. (See the Discipline Domain section for more
information on reportable incidents). Some schools (most often elementary schools) may not have any reportable School Safety incidents for the
entire school year. In this situation an LEA must indicate such by submitting a record in this template for each school that does not have reportable
incidents for the year.
See the template specifications and sample data below as well as Appendix AA in Volume 2 of the PIMS User Manual for more information.
Expulsion Notes
Students that are expelled during the school year only for academic reasons or for violations of the student code of conduct are to be reported
in aggregate in this template. Expulsions for other reasons (e.g., drug possession, violence, etc.) should be reported at the detail level in the
Discipline Domain templates and should not be included in aggregate here.
Note that the aggregate number of expelled students is to be reported by infraction category by grade level, by infraction category by ethnicity, and
by infraction category by gender. It is also important to note that this expulsion data is to be reported on an unduplicated student basis, not on an
incident basis. If a student is expelled multiple times during the school year for these reasons he should be counted only once in each of these
aggregate submissions.
See the template specifications and sample data below as well as Appendix AA in Volume 2 of the PIMS User Manual for more information.
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Published 7/21/2010