Optional Flexible School Day Program Reporting

The Optional Flexible School Day Program (OFSDP) allows districts to provide flexible hours and days of attendance for eligible students. The program aims to improve graduation rates for students who have dropped out, are in danger of dropping out, or are behind in core subject courses.

You can enter or calculate OFSDP attendance information daily.

Calculate OFSDP

Follow these procedures if your building calculates the attendance minutes for OFSDP.

Set Up the OFSDP

1. Navigate to the Calendar page.
2. Define an OFSDP calendar for buildings offering the program.
3. Define an attendance view for OFSDP to report the total number of minutes present for the student. Enter OFSD for the View Type. Refer to Rules for View to Calculate OFSD Minutes for more information.

4. Use the Lunch Group table to define the lunch times to exclude when calculating the Monthly Minutes for the 090 record and OFSDP. Use this table if your district has students scheduled for a period that includes the times for the course and lunch.

   

   Do not use Lunch Groups if your building schedules students for lunch.

5. On the PEIMS Course page, assign the Lunch Group to any course that needs to exclude lunch minutes.

Assign Students to the OFSDP

1. Assign the student to an OFSDP calendar on the Entry/Withdrawal page.
2. Add a program tracking record for the PEIMS Demographics ADA Eligibility program with a value of 7 (Eligible - Flexible attendance program participation) or 8 (Ineligible - Flexible attendance program participation).

Calculate OFSDP Attendance

1. Navigate to the Day Totals Calculation page.
2. Run the calculation for the applicable attendance reporting periods.
3. Run the Build PEIMS OFSDP Records option to transfer attendance minutes to the OFSDP table.
4. Use the View PEIMS OFSDP Records page to review the OFSDP minutes.

Enter OFSDP Attendance

Follow these procedures if your building enters the OFSDP attendance records daily.

Set Up the OFSDP

1. Navigate to the Calendar page.
2. Define an OFSDP calendar for buildings offering the program.

Assign Students to the OFSDP

1. Assign the student to an OFSDP calendar on the Entry/Withdrawal page.
2. Add a program tracking record for the PEIMS Demographics ADA Eligibility program with a value of 7 (Eligible - Flexible attendance program participation) or 8 (Ineligible - Flexible attendance program participation).

Enter OFSDP Attendance

1. Navigate to the View PEIMS OFSDP Records page.
2. Enter minutes as needed for students.
3. Click Save.