Focus will report each student receiving instruction/service during that reporting period plus any student with a Discipline or Fed State record. Focus will send Homeschool students if they are concurrently enrolled at a district school receiving instruction.
Full time virtual school students must be enrolled and be scheduled in the Florida/districts virtual schools set up in Focus.
Focus will report a separate record for each course for which the student in grades PK-12 is in membership, whether the student is FTE eligible or not.
FTE calculations depend on the type of summer program. If the student is attending a DJJ program or is in a funded ESY program, the FTE is based on the following formula:
(Weekly minutes / days meeting in the week) * days in session / (900 * 60).
900 is used for upper grade levels. Primary grade levels will use 720.
FTE for virtual school instruction is based on the grade level:
KG-5: up to 1 FTE is awarded for each student successfully being promoted to the next grade level.
6-8: up to 1 FTE is awarded to each student who successfully completes assigned classes (1/12 FTE per semester successfully completed)
9-12: up to 1 FTE is awarded to each student who earns credit in course work (1/12 FTE per .5 credits earned)
Focus will report a separate record for each combination of Course Number, Section Number, Period Number, Term, and Social Security Number.
Focus will not report sections containing no (0) students.
Focus will report any PK-12 student who has an Exceptionality, and/or a Primary code other than Z, who also maintains a placement status of P or T.
Focus will report any PK-12 student in membership during survey week who is assigned to a school bus, passenger car, or other vehicle.
In addition, Focus will report a Student Transportation format: students only transported to another district to receive instruction.
Focus Process
1. Transportation only students are enrolled in their own school. This is set up via the School pull-down on the student's Enrollment record. There is a special school (TRAN) that is set up to enroll students who are only being transported to another district and not actually taking any courses within the current district.
2. Focus will extract the hosting/transporting district number for the element District Number, Current Instruction/Service, and the number of the district supplying the instruction in District Number, Current Enrollment. (Students > Student Info > Demographic > Transportation tab > Transportation Only Student, District of Instruction field).
3. If a student was not transported during the FTE window transportation, information does not have to be removed. You can select the check box to exclude them from the transportation extract via the Transportation tab (Students > Student Info > Demographic tab > Transportation tab > Student was not Transported During FTE Window field).
If the checkbox is selected, the student will not be pulled into the Survey; however, if it is left cleared, the student will be pulled into the Survey.