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SDLA Compliance Resource

CALPADS EOY 1 Submission Window Opens

A submission-opening control for establishing the EOY 1 source rosters, ownership, validation, and certification calendar.

  • CALPADS
  • EOY 1
  • Data Certification
Date(s)May 4, 2027
Applies toLEAs reporting program participation, incidents, cumulative enrollment, absence/Attendance Recovery, RFEP, homeless and immigrant counts, special education, SWD postsecondary outcomes, and expanded learning

In Plain Language: The official window is open. Freeze reproducible source rosters, post current records, establish partner signoffs, and begin report-level reconciliation for program participation, incidents, cumulative enrollment, absence/Attendance Recovery, RFEP, homeless and immigrant counts, special education, SWD postsecondary outcomes, and expanded learning.

Why this matters

The consolidated EOY 1 combines domains formerly spread across multiple submissions, making cross-program reconciliation essential.

Primary ownership

Primary owner: CALPADS administrator with attendance, discipline, program, EL, homeless, expanded learning, special education/SELPA, and school owners. Certification owner: authorized LEA certifier with SELPA review/approval at the required stage.

From frozen source rosters to certified EOY 1 data: the SDLA ITO workflow

Opening the window starts the work: program participation, incidents, cumulative enrollment, and related records must reconcile to owner-maintained rosters before certification. This SDLA ITO (Input, Transformation, Output) graphic shows how the calendar, roles and access, frozen source rosters, and local extracts become the error and variance log, the pupil-level and certification reports, and the owner signoffs.

SDLA ITO: eleven steps from the calendar, roles and access, frozen source rosters, and local extracts, through posting files, error resolution, early certification reports, and variance reconciliation, to the error and variance log, the pupil-level and certification reports, and the owner signoffs.
Read down each column, then move to the next: Input identifies what to collect; Transformation covers posting files, error resolution, early certification reports, and variance reconciliation; Output covers the error and variance log, the pupil-level and certification reports, and the owner signoffs. The window opens May 4, 2027; schedule certification and backup coverage early.

Open the full-size workflow graphic

Operational workflow

  1. Confirm calendar, roles, access, extracts, local freeze/reproducibility, and partner deadlines.
  2. Post current files and resolve fatal input errors at the authoritative source.
  3. Run certification reports early and distribute pupil-level detail to program owners.
  4. Maintain a variance log with owner, source correction, resubmission, and verification.
  5. Schedule certification, amendment, and backup coverage before local staff availability declines.

Implementation pathway

Source systems
Post
Validate
Reconcile
Certify/amend

Evidence to retain

  • Dated source/control rosters
  • Error and variance-resolution log
  • Pupil-level and certification reports
  • Program-owner signoffs
  • System certification/approval evidence

Official guidance and help

Source review completed August 30, 2026. Verify the live CDE calendar, current CALPADS/PADC instructions, local source records, required partner approvals, and final posted or certified state before acting.