/studentSpecialEducationProgramAssociation (/sSEPA)

This endpoint captures the special education programs in which a student is involved or from which they receive services.

The Student Special Education Program Association (sSEPA) endpoint records should only be submitted for primary and PPP enrollment types.

This endpoint is NOT expected from Choice schools.

Ed-Fi Tech Docs: v5 Student Program > StudentSpecialEducationProgramAssociation, https://techdocs.ed-fi.org/display/EDFICERT/v3+Student+Program+%3E+StudentSpecialEducationProgramAssociation (2024/25 SY and prior)

Data Properties:

#	Property Name	Data Type	Public (Required/ Optional/ Conditional)	Choice (Required/ Optional/ Conditional)	Business Definition	Data Element Page
1.0	beginDate	string	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The earliest date the student is involved with the program. Typically, this is the date the student becomes eligible for the program.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/ssepabeginandenddates
2.0	educationOrganizationId	integer	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The identifier assigned to an education organization.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-element/edorgid
3.0	programName	string	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The formal name of the Program of instruction, training, services, or benefits available through federal, state, or local agencies.	NA
4.0	programTypeDescriptor	string	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The type of program.	NA
5.0	studentUniqueId	string	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	A unique alphanumeric code assigned to a student.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/WISEid
6.0	disabilities	array			An unordered collection of studentSpecialEducationProgramAssociationDisabilities. The disability condition(s) that best describes an individual's impairment, as related to special education services received.
7.0	disabilityDescriptor	string	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	A disability category that describes a child's impairment.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/disability
8.0	orderOfDisability	integer	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The order by severity of student's disabilities: 1- Primary, 2 - Secondary, 3 - Tertiary, etc.	NA
9.0	endDate	string	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The month, day, and year on which the Student exited the Program or stopped receiving services.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/ssepabeginandenddates
10.0	ideaEligibility	boolean	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	Indicator of the eligibility of the student to receive special education services according to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/ideaeligibility
11.0	iepBeginDate	string	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The effective date of the most recent IEP.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/iepbeginandenddates
12.0	iepEndDate	string	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The end date of the most recent IEP.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/iepbeginandenddates
13.0	lastEvaluationDate	boolean	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The date of the last special education evaluation.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/lastevaluationdate
14.0	reasonExitedDescriptor (Removed 2025-26 SY)	string	CONDITIONALLY REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The reason the child left the Program within a school or district.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/reason-exited
15.0	SpecialEducationExitReasonDescriptor (Added 2025-26 SY)	string	CONDITIONALLY REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The reason why a person stops receiving special education services.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/reason-exited
16.0	specialEducationSettingDescriptor	string	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The major instructional setting (more than 50 percent of a student's special education program).	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/educational-environment
17.0	ShortenedSchoolDayIndicator (Added 2025-26 SY)	boolean	CONDITIONALLY REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	Indicator that the student's IEP requires a shortened school day. Possible values: True, or False	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/short-day
18.0	ReductionInHoursPerWeekComparedToPeers (Added 2025-26 SY)	number	CONDITIONALLY REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	Records the number of hours reduced for the shortened school day for the IEP student as compared to peers in regular education.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/short-hours
19.0	schoolHoursPerWeek (Added 2025-26 SY)	number	CONDITIONALLY REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	Indicate the total number of hours of instructional time per week that the IEP student attends. Example: If the student's schoolHoursPerWeek is 25 and their ReductionInHoursPerWeekComparedToPeers is 5, that means their peers attend 30 hours per week.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/school-weekly-hours
20.0	fapeResponsibleSchoolReference.School ID	integer	REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	A reference to the related School resource. School in LEA Responsible for FAPE is a school level Agency Key. School which holds FAPE Accountability per the IEP or the ISP.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/faperesponsible
21.0	RccPlacementTypeDescriptor (Added 2025-26 SY)	string	CONDITIONALLY REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The RCC collection is for IEP students only. Parentally placed private (PPP) school students with service plans are not relevant to RCC monitoring. Indicates the placement type for the student’s RCC placement. Possible values include "County Placed," "Parent Placed," and "IEP Team Placed".	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/rcc/placement-type
22.0	RccCommunityProviderReference communityProviderId (Added 2025-26 SY)	integer	CONDITIONALLY REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The unique identifier assigned to the RCC facility for placements within the state, Information about Residential Care Centers (RCCs) may be obtained from the WISEdata API via a GET request on the /communityProviders endpoint.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/rcc/in-state-id
24.0	RccName (Added 2025-26 SY)	string	CONDITIONALLY REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	A name for the RCC facility for out-of-state placements.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/rcc/out-state-name
25.0	RccCity (Added 2025-26 SY)	string	CONDITIONALLY REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The city in which the out-of-state RCC is located	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/rcc/out-state-city
26.0	RccStateAbbreviationDescriptor (Added 2025-26 SY)	string	CONDITIONALLY REQ'D	NOT REQ'D	The abbreviation for the state (within the United States) or outlying area in which an RCC is located.	https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/rcc/state

Descriptors & Programs:


Program Type and Name:
Namespace	Code Value	Description	Program Names
uri://dpi.wi.gov/ProgramTypeDescriptor	SPED	Special Education	Special Education
Descriptors:
Namespace	Code Value	Short Description	Description
uri://dpi.wi.gov/DisabilityDescriptor	A	Autism	Autism
	DB	Deafblind	Deafblind
	EBD	Emotional Behavioral Disability	Emotional Behavioral Disability
	H	Deaf and Hard of Hearing	Deaf and Hard of Hearing (For 2023-24 and later) This description has been changed from “Deaf or Hard of Hearing” to “Deaf and Hard of Hearing”
	ID	Intellectual Disability	Intellectual Disability
	LD	Specific Learning Disability	Specific Learning Disability
	OHI	Other Health Impairment	Other Health Impairment
	OI	Orthopedic Impairment	Orthopedic Impairment
	SDD	Significant Developmental Delay	Significant Developmental Delay
	SL	Speech or Language Impairment	Speech or Language Impairment
	TBI	Traumatic Brain Injury	Traumatic Brain Injury
	V	Blind and Visually Impaired	Blind and Visually Impaired
uri://dpi.wi.gov/SpecialEducationExitReasonDescriptor (Added 2025-26 SY)	C	Continuing in Special Education	Continuing in Special Education
	E	Exited district due to enrollment exit code	Exited district due to enrollment exit code
	R	Revoked consent for special education services	Revoked consent for special education services
	T	Transferred to regular education	Transferred to regular education
uri://dpi.wi.gov/ReasonExitedDescriptor (Deleted 2025-26 SY)	C	Continuing in Special Education	Continuing in Special Education
	E	Exited district due to enrollment exit code	Exited district due to enrollment exit code
	R	Revoked consent for special education services	Revoked consent for special education services
	T	Transferred to regular education	Transferred to regular education
uri://dpi.wi.gov/SpecialEducationSettingDescriptor	A	School age: Regular Class at Least 80%	School age: Student is inside the regular classroom with nondisabled peers 80% or more of the time.
	B	School age: Regular Class 40 - 79%	School age: Student is inside the regular classroom with nondisabled peers 40 to 79% of the time
	B1	Preschool: Separate Special Education Classroom	Preschool: Student attends a special education early childhood program in a class with less than 50% nondisabled peers.
	B2	Preschool: Separate School	Preschool: Student attends a special education early childhood program in a public or private day school designed specifically for children with disabilities.
	B3	Preschool: Residential Facility	Preschool: Student attends a special education early childhood program in publicly or privately operated residential schools or residential medical facilities on an inpatient basis.
	B4	Preschool: Home	Preschool: Student receives special education/related services in the principle residence of the child's family or caregivers (includes babysitters). Report children who receive special education both at home and in a service provider location in this category.
	B5	Preschool: Service Provider	Preschool: Student receives special education/related services only from a service provider or in some other location that is not in any other category. This educational environment code is only used when no other educational environment code can be used. For example, a child who receives only speech and language services in a speech pathologist's office located in a school building.
	C	School age: Regular Class Less Than 40%	School age: Student is inside the regular class room with nondisabled peers less than 40% of the time