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CALPADS EOY 2 Submission Window Opens

A submission-opening control for establishing the EOY 2 source rosters, ownership, validation, and certification calendar.

  • CALPADS
  • EOY 2
  • Data Certification
Date(s)May 4, 2027
Applies toLEAs reporting grade 7–12 course completion, CTE participants/completers, work-based learning indicators, and one-year graduate/completer counts

In Plain Language: The official window is open. Freeze reproducible source rosters, post current records, establish partner signoffs, and begin report-level reconciliation for grade 7–12 course completion, CTE participants/completers, work-based learning indicators, and one-year graduate/completer counts.

Why this matters

EOY 2 feeds college/career and completion reporting and closes on the same day as the cohort data pull.

Primary ownership

Primary owner: CALPADS administrator with secondary scheduling/transcripts, CTE, work-based learning, counseling, graduation, and school owners. Certification owner: authorized LEA certifier.

From frozen source rosters to certified EOY 2 data: the SDLA ITO workflow

Opening the window starts the work: course completion, CTE participants and completers, 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.