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Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers: Special Education

Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers: Special Education, Shortened School Day

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NEW for the 2025-26 School Year and Onward: Shortened School Day data elements

Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers is a numeric value that records the reduction of hours per week for a special education student whose IEP provides shortened school day. This value focuses on how many less hours a week the student with an IEP attends school compared to students who attend the full number of weekly school hours.

School Weekly Hours defines the school hours attended by the Shortened School Day student.

Think of the Shortened School Day data elements as an addition equation:

School Weekly Hours + Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers = Standard Peer Attendance Hours

25 hours of school per week + 5 hours less than peers attend school = 30 hours per standard school week.

 

For example, if the student's School Weekly Hours is 25 and their Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers is 5, that means their peers attend 30 hours per week, or, 25 + 5 = 30.

Make sure that the value for School Weekly Hours (e.g., 25) is greater than the value for Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers (e.g., 5). 25 > 5.

USES: This data is used by the DPI Special Education Team for compliance monitoring of the Procedural Compliance Self-Assessment (PCSA) by pulling data samples from the district level. The DPI SPED team uses this data to identify instances where a reduced school schedule may be used inappropriately.

 

FAQs, Details, and Use Cases

  1. Please note that these data elements should only be reported for students with shortened school day annotated as a placement in their IEP. These data elements should not be reported for students without IEPs. For example, these data elements should not be reported for high school seniors that qualify for late start and early release based on the number of credits they have earned/need to complete for graduation.

Resources

To contact the DPI Special Education Team with questions about disability data, you can     
submit a Special Education Team Help Ticket, or call: 1 (608) 266-1781.
 
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