Paris Independent School District

Paris ISD has adopted the seventeen criteria delineated in Texas Education Code §29.081 with additions by Senate Bill 991 as the sole criteria used in identifying students who are eligible to receive educational support designed to help them meet grade-level expectations, succeed on state assessments, and ultimately graduate.  These criteria include the following:

Local criteria

• Paris ISD has chosen not to set local criteria for at-risk students.

State Eligibility Criteria for At-Risk Student Identification:

State Criteria for at-risk students (PEIMS identified)

A student at risk of dropping out of school includes each student who is under 26 years of age and who:

1. Was not advanced from one grade level to the next for one or more school years;
2. 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;
3. 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;
4. 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;
5. Is pregnant or is a parent;
6. Has been placed in a DAEP in accordance with §37.006 during the preceding or current school year;
7. Has been expelled in accordance with §37.007 during the preceding or current school year;
8. Is currently on parole, probation, deferred prosecution, or other conditional release;
9. Was previously reported through the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) to have dropped out of school;
10. Is an emergent bilingual student (formerly LEP student), as defined by §29.052;
11. 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;
12. Is homeless, as defined by 42 U.S.C. §11302, and its subsequent amendments;
13. 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;
14. 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;
15. 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;
16. Is a chronically absent student, as defined by Section 48.009; or
17. Is required to attend school under Section 25.085, is not exempted under Section 25.086, and fails to attend school without excuse for 10 or more days or parts of days within a six-month period in the same school year.