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At-Risk Identification

Students may only be served in State Compensatory Education programs or services if they are identified by:

State Criteria for at-risk students (PEIMS identified)

  • All students may be served.

Local criteria

  • Only 10% of the number of at-risk students served the previous year may be served during the current year. Paris ISD has chosen not to set local criteria for at-risk students.

State Eligibility Criteria for At-Risk Student Identification:

A student at risk of dropping out of school  includes each student who is under 21 years of age and who:

  • Was not advanced from one grade level to the next for one or more school years;
  • Is in grade 7-12 and did not maintain an average equivalent to 70 on a scale of 100 in two or more subjects in the foundation curriculum during a semester in the preceding or current school year or is not maintaining such an average in two or more subjects in the foundation curriculum in the current semester;
  • Did not perform satisfactorily on a state assessment instrument, and who has not in the previous or current school year subsequently performed on that instrument or another appropriate instrument at a level equal to at least 110 percent of the level of satisfactory performance on that instrument;
  • Is in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten or grade 1,2, or 3, and did not perform satisfactorily on a readiness test or assessment instrument administered during the current school year;
  • Is pregnant or is a parent;
  • Has been placed in a DAEP in accordance with §37.006 during the preceding or current school year;
  • Has been expelled in accordance with §37.007 during the preceding or current school year;
  • Is currently on parole, probation, deferred prosecution, or other conditional release;
  • Was previously reported through the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) to have dropped out of school;
  • Is an emergent bilingual student (formerly LEP student), as defined by §29.052;
  • Is in the custody or care of the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services or has, during the current school year, been referred to the department by a school official, officer of the juvenile court, or law enforcement official;
  • Is homeless, as defined by 42 U.S.C. §11302, and its subsequent amendments;
  • Resided, in the preceding school year, or who resides, in the current school year, in a residential placement facility within the district, including a detention facility, substance abuse treatment facility, emergency shelter, psychiatric hospital, halfway house, or foster group home;
  • Has been incarcerated or has a parent or guardian who has been incarcerated, within the lifetime of the student, in a penal institution as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code;
  • Is enrolled in a school district or open-enrollment charter school, or a campus of a school district or open-enrollment charter school, that is designated as a dropout recovery school under TEC 39.0548.