The Maine Educational Data Systems Team will be hosting a webinar to discuss the end of year reporting requirements in this notification on Friday June 11th from 10:00am to 12:00pm. Register here
The following checklist is designed to assist School Administrative Units (SAUs) with publicly funded students in completing required end of year reports. The dates listed after each report are when the report is open for entry and due for certification, if required.
Synergy: The following items are available in the Synergy Student Information System. Please visit the Synergy Instructions Helpdesk Page for Synergy codes to be used for the items below.
Enrollments
Update/End ALL Enrollments (done last):
Manual Student Enrollment Exit Instructions
Upload Student Enrollment Exit Instructions
- DOE will NOT be automatically ending enrollments
- Concurrent enrollment MUST be ended before the primary enrollment can be ended
- All students will need to be exited on their actual last day of school. This may be verified using “Attending Student Report” in NEO> Student Reports.
- June 30 should not be automatically populated for the last day of school.
- Future exit dates that are more than 7 days out are not permitted in the system.
- Ending a student’s enrollment will end Economic Status and Truancy – to avoid this, update Truancy records prior to ending enrollments
- Ending enrollments will prevent you from manually updating Attendance Data. Once an enrollment has been ended, attendance data can only be modified by uploading the data.
- Please ensure that you exit all your graduates accordingly
- Only exit students who have met graduation requirements by the graduation date
- For those who are expected to meet graduation requirements over the summer, leave the exit blank for now and there will be an opportunity for you to exit them later in the summer (by August 15)
- Do NOT graduate students in non-high school grades (Pre-K, Kindergarten, Eighth Grade, etc.)
- Only exit students who have met graduation requirements by the graduation date
- Please remember to exit your enrolled home instruction students back to home instruction at the end of the school year.
New enrollments will need to be uploaded/entered as well as special education information each school year.
Annual End of Year Reports and Certifications:
The following items are Annual Reports for the 2020/2021 school year. Instructions for these reports can be found here.
The reports listed below are linked directly to its corresponding certification report in NEO
- Maine Schools and School Approval – Opens May 15, Verified and certified by Superintendent by June 30 (Instructions for Maine Schools)
- Special Education Exit Report – Verified and certified by Special Ed Director or Superintendent. June 1 – July 30 (Special Education Exit Reporting Instructions)
- Attendance Certification (End-of-Year) – Verified and certified by Superintendent. June 1 -July 1 (Attendance Certification (End – of- Year) Instructions)
- Truancy Certification – Verified and certified by Superintendent. June 1 -June 30 (Truancy Reporting Guidance)
- Bullying reporting – Verified and certified by Superintendent. June 1 -June 30 (Bullying Reporting Instructions)
- Report of Adult Education for Subsidy Purposes (EF-M-39A) – Submitted by the Special Education Director and certified by the Superintendent. June 1 – July 15 (EF-M-39 Report of Adult Education Instructions)
- School Health Report. May 1 – July 31
- Restraint and Seclusion Report – Verified and certified by Superintendent. June 15 – August 1.
- Q4 Actual Balance Sheet July 1 – August 30 (Actual Balance Sheet Instructions)
- Q4 Actual Expenditure July 1 – August 30 (Actual Expenditure Instructions)
- Q4 Actual Revenue July 1 – August 30 (Actual Revenue Instructions)
- Q1 Budget Expenditure – Due by 8/15/2020 or 30 days after the budget passes, whichever is later (Budget Expenditure Instructions)
- Q1 Budget Revenue – Due by 8/15/2020 or 30 days after the budget passes, whichever is later. (Budget Revenue Instructions)
If you have questions about these reports, (i.e. what should be entered) please contact the subject specialist listed below:
- Maine Schools: Katherine Warren 624-6716 Warren@Maine.gov
- Special Education: Brandi Giguere 446-6526 A.Giguere@Maine.gov
- Financial Reports: Tyler Backus 624-6635 Backus@Maine.gov
- School Approvals: Pamela Ford-Taylor 624-6617 Ford-Taylor@Maine.gov
- Bullying: Kellie Bailey Bailey@Maine.gov
- Behavior: Bear Shea 441-7404 Bear.Shea@Maine.gov
- Restraint and Seclusion: Bear Shea 441-7404 Bear.Shea@Maine.gov
- School Health Report: Emily Poland 592-0387 Poland@Maine.gov
If you have questions about accessing the reports, please call or email the helpdesk, 624-6896 or MEDMS.helpdesk@maine.gov
If you do not have credentials for Synergy or NEO, the district superintendent may grant access using the appropriate webform on the Helpdesk Page: Access Request Form