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### Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) Program **Instructions for Completing the Annual Performance Report**

**For Program Year 2011 –** **12 1.**  **WHAT IS THIS PACKAGE?**  This package contains the instructions needed to prepare the annual performance report for the Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) program. The Department of Education uses the information provided in the performance report to assess a grantee’s progress in meeting its approved goals and objectives and to determine a grantee’s prior experience (PE) points in accordance with the program regulations (34 CFR 644.22 – Educational Opportunity Centers). The Department also aggregates grante es' data to report on each program as a whole, in particular to respond to the Government Performance and Results Act. **2. WHAT ARE THE LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY AUTHORITIES TO COLLECT THIS**  **INFORMATION?**

 P rogram regulations in 34 CFR Part 644; and  S ection s 75.59 1 and 75.720 of the Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) **3. W**  **HO MUST FILE THIS REPORT?** All grantees funded under the EOC program must submit annual performance reports as a condition of grant award. **4. WHAT PERIOD OF TIME I**  **S COVERED IN THE REPORT?** The report covers the 12
- month budget period. This information can be found in Block 6 of your Grant Award Notification. **5. W**  **HAT INFORMATION MUST BE SUBMITTED?** The repo rt consists of four sections. Section I requests basic identi fying information about the project, while Section II covers demographic information and target schools. Sections III and IV reflect the standard objectives found on the Program Profile page of the 2011 application package for EOC. Section III requests t he educational status of different groups of participants at time of first service in the reporting period; these groups allow grantees to report on sets of participants specified in the objectives. Section IV asks grantees to report on the educational st atus of participants at the end of the reporting period and to show the extent to which the project succeeded in meeting its objectives.2

**6. W**  **HEN SHOULD THE REPORT BE FILED?** The annual performance report should be submitted electronically via the Web with in 90 days after the end of each 12
- month budget period. **7. HOW MAY THE REPORT BE SUBMITTED?**  The entire report should be submitted via the World Wide Web. In addition, a grantee must submit, via fax _______, a signed copy of Section I of the report form t hat certifies that the information submitted electronically is accurate, complete, and readily verifiable. The Web application will be available as of

________, via link to our contractor's Web site from the following Web addressee: **http://www.ed.gov/programs/trioeoc/report.html** The Web site contains the forms and instructions needed to prepare and submit online the annual performance report for the EOC program. The Web application t hat EOC grantees will use to submit the annual performance report has the following features:

 I nstructions for using the Web site, an introduction to the data collection, and Online Help;  Web form for completing all sections online;  E dit checks to help increase accuracy in reporting;  A print button to make a hard copy of the information entered;  A submit button to send the entire report to the Department of Education; and  A n e - mail confirmation that the report has been submitted (if an e
- mail address is provided when completing Section I). **8. WHO MAY BE CONTACTED FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SUBMISSION**  **OF THE PERFORMANCE REPORT?** Please contact your program specialist directly if you have questions regarding the performance report requi rements or if you need to revise the performance report submission. A state listing of program specialists’ names, telephone numbers, and e
- mail addresses is available at the Web address provided above. If you have technical problems accessing the Web si te or using the Web application, please contact the Help Desk by either telephone

_________or e - mail at

__________ .3 **Specific Instructions for Completing the Performance Report**
**Section I :**  **Project Identification, Certification, and Warning A.**  **Identifi cation**  1. To begin completing this report online, from the Department’s Web page you will need to click on _____________, a Web site hosted by our contractor to support submittal of annual performance reports. 2. Once at the contra ctor's Web site (entitled " EOC Annual Performance Report (APR) for Program Year 2011– 12"), you will need to register to receive a user ID and temporary password. Registration requires entry of the project director's first and last names and e
- mail address and the project's PR award number (found in block 5 of the Grant Award Notification). If this information matches the data that the Department currently has on file, a user ID and temporary password will be sent to the e
- mail address on file. If discrepancies exist, your program specialist will be sent an e
- mail message requesting verification of data on the project. Please allow 24 hours for this verification to occur. Once the Help Desk has received verification from the program specialist, the grantee will be notified that he or she can continue with registration. 3. Once you have your user ID and temporary password, you may enter those on the homepage of the website listed above a nd click "Log in." You will then be prompted to create a new password and answer two security questions. After doing so, the website will let you continue onto Section I of the APR . 4. You will be asked to confirm that the PR/Award number and associated grantee name are correct; you will then see the page for Section I. Your PR/Award number will be pre - populated in line 1 of Section I of the report form. 5. The name of the organization awarded the grant funds will be pre - populated in line 2. 6. The address of the grantee organization will be pre - populated in line 3. If changes are needed, please correct t he data. 7. The name of the project director will be pre - populated in line 4. If there has been a change in the project director, please contact your program specialist immediately to notify them of the change. The APR is not a vehicle for obtaining app roval for any project director changes. 8. The current telephone number, fax number, and electronic mailing address for the project director will be pre
- populated in line 5.4

9. The budget period covered by this report will be pre
- populated in line 6. These dates should correspond to the budget period found in block 6 of the Grant Award Notification. 10. In line 7 , provide the name, telephone number, and electronic mailing address for the data entry person who has completed the online form. **B. Certificat**  **ion** The project director is the person responsible for administering the project in accordance with the terms and conditions of the grant. The certifying official is the individual (or successor or designee) who signed the grant application on behalf of the institution or agency. **C. Warnings**  Any person who knowingly makes a false statement or misrepresentation on this report is subject to penalties which may include fines, imprisonment, or both, under the United States Criminal Code and 20 U.S.C. 1097 . Fu rther Federal funds or other benefits may be withheld under these programs unless this report is completed and filed as required by existing law (20 U.S.C. 1231a) and regulations (34 CFR 75.590 and 75.720).5

**Section II: Demographic Profile of Project Par ticipants and Listing of Target Schools**  **Number of Participants Funded to Serve** The Department will pre
- populate this field with the number of participants the grant was funded to serve each year, based on information provided in the project's approved a pplication. Grantees will not be able to make changes to this number on the form. If the pre
- populated number reflects a data entry error, the project must contact its assigned program specialist to resolve the problem. **A. Number of Participants Assist** **ed** In completing this section of the report, please keep in mind the following definitions of a project participant provided in the prog ram regulations in 34 CFR 644.7. An EOC participant means an individual who: (1) is determined to be eligible to participate in the project under section 644.3; and (2) receives project services. Only those individuals who meet the definitions of participants should be counted in this section of the report . Participants need not have been enrolled in the program at the beginning of the reporting period to be counted. Report only on participants served in 2011– 12; do not provide information on participants last served in 2010– 11 or any earlier year. Please provide the number of new participants served in A1 and con tinuing participants in A2. A new participant is one served by the project for the first time during this budget period. A continuing participant is one who was served by the project for the first time in another budget period (this includes a budget p eriod under a previous grant) and who received project services during this budget period. A3 should be the total of A1 and A2, if applicable, and should be the number of participants served by the project during the budget period. **B. Participant Distr** **ibution by Eligibility** The regulations governing the EOC program (see 34 CFR 644.11(a) ) require s that a t least two
thirds of the individuals a project serves must be low
- income individuals who are potential fi rstgeneration college students (these terms are defined below) th e remaining participants can be low
- income individuals, potential first
-generation college students, or any individuals in need of services who meet s the other participant eligibility criteria in 34 CFR 644.3 . Students may be counted only once in this breakout. The total reported must agree with the number in A3 above. Low- income individual means an individual whose family’s taxable income did not exceed 150 percent of the poverty level amount in the calendar year preceding the year in which the individual initially participated in the project. The poverty level amount is determined using6

criteria of poverty established by the Bureau of the Census of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The 2012 low
- income levels can be found on the TRIO website at: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/trio/incomelevels.html Potential first generation college student means (1) an individual neither of whose natural or adoptive parents received a baccalaureate degree; or (2) an individual who, prior to the age of 18, regularly resided with and received support from only one parent and whose supporting parent did not receive a baccalaureate degree; or (3) an individual wh o, prior to the age of 18, did not regularly reside with or receive support from a natural or adoptive parent. In the Other category (B4), count those project participants who are neither low
- income nor potential first
-generation college students. The total should agree with the number in A3. **C. Participant Distribution by Race and Ethnicity**  On October 19, 2007, ED released revised, Department
-wide guidance on collecting and reporting data on race and ethnicity: http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/other/2007
-4/101907c.pdf ; or http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/other/2007
-4/1 01907c.html All grantees of the Department were required to implement the revised guidance as of fall 2010 for the 2010– 11 school year and thereafter . While the 2007 guidance is largely consistent with the reporting categories for race and ethnicity th at EOC grantees have used in earlier years in APR reporting, the guidance specifies data collection, reporting, and maintenance procedures that grantees may or may not have followed in the past, but that now are required for full implementation. These pro cedures, designed to ensure data quality, include these points:

 Grantees need to collect racial and ethnic data on all participants using a two
- part question: first, the grantee asks the participant -- whether the participant is Hispanic/Latino; second, t he grantee asks the respondent to select one or more races from the five racial groups listed. (Instead of asking the respondent, grantees may use school records to determine a participant's race and ethnicity, but only if the school has i mplemented the D epartment's 2007 guidance.)

 If the respondent identifies the participant as Hispanic/Latino, that is the one category the grantee should use in reporting to the Department on that participant, regardless of other racial information the respondent may provide. Grantees must, however, keep in their files the original responses on race and ethnicity of all participants using the two
- part question.

 If a respondent belongs in more than one racial group, the grantee should report the respondent as belonging to two or more races.7

 “Unknown” should not appear on forms grantees use to collect data, though grantees may report a participant’s race/ethnicity as “Unknown” if necessary.

 The guidance encourages grantees to have respondents themselves identify the cat egory to which they belong, rather than for the grantee to use observation to select a category. The points above are highlights only; grantees are responsible for implementing all relevant aspects of the guidance. In Section II C, grantees are to report aggregated data on participants' race and ethnicity. As noted above, all students identified as Hispanic or Latino should be included only in the count for C2 . Non Hispanic/Latino participants identified as of one ra ce should be shown in lines C1, C3, C4, C 5, or C 6. Non - Hispanic/Latino participants identified as of two or more races should be counted in C7. Participants for whom race and ethnicity is unknown should be included in the count for C8. The total, C9, should equal the number in Section II , A3. As indicated ab ove, the original responses from Hispanic/Latino students or their parents (and indeed all participants) provided on their race and ethnicity should be retained in grantees' files. **Definitions of the ethnic and r acial categories**  **Hispa nic or Latino**  - A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. **American Indian or Alaska Native**
- A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South Ame rica (including Central America), and who maintains a tribal affiliation or community attachment. **Asian** - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. This area includes, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. **Black or African American**
- A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. **White**
- A person having origins in any of the ori ginal peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East. **Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander** – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii or other Pacific islands such as Samoa and Guam. **Two or more races –**  A person of a multi
- racial background. **D. Participant Distribution by Gender**  T hough these data are not mandatory, they are helpful to the Department in reporting on the gender representation of project participants. The total should agree with the number in A3.8

**E. Participant Distribution by Age**  The data requested here represent age ranges most consistent with age groups targeted for services by the Talent Search (TS) and EOC program statute and regulations. Given the permissible exceptions provided by statute w hich permits EOC projects to serve individuals younger than 19 years of age if the individuals cannot be appropriately served by a TS project (see 34 CFR 644.3(2)) , th e requested information aids the Department in validating the numbers youth s and adults s erved by each EOC project. The total should agree with the number in A3. The data reported here should reflect the age of project participants **at the time of first service**  **in the reporting**  **period.** Item E1 has been changed to include participants who mee t the eligibility requirements for TS but who are younger than 11 years old. **F .**  **Military connected students (if applicable)**  For EOC projects that addressed the competitive preference priority under the FY 2011 grant competition, p lease p rovide the number of veterans, active duty military, children of active duty military, and spouses of active duty military s erved by the EOC project during the reporting year . Military connected students means a veteran or an individual who has a parent or guardia n on active duty in the uniformed services (as defined by 37 U.S.C. 101, in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, National Guard, or the reserve component of any of the aforementioned services) or is a member of the uniformed services who i s on active duty, or who is the spouse of an active
- duty service member. A veteran may be served regardless of age. Veteran means a person - (1) Served on active duty as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States for a period of more than 180 days and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable; (2) Served on active duty as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States and was discharged or released because of a service connected disability; (3) Was a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States who served on active duty in support of a contingency operation (as that term is defined in section 101(a)(13) of title 10, United States Code) on or after September 11, 2001. **G .**  **Participants with Limit ed English Proficiency**  EOC projects may adapt project services to meet the needs of students with limited English proficiency (see 34 CFR 644.4(k)) . If applicable for your project, please provide the number of project participants with limited English p roficiency. Limited English proficiency, with reference to an individual, means a person whose native language is other than English and who has sufficient difficulty speaking, reading, writing, or understanding the English language to deny that individua l the opportunity to learn successfully in classrooms in which English is the language of instruction.9

**H. EOC participants also served during reporting year by another federally funded program**  **(see 34 CFR 644.32(c)(** **4 ))**  Please provide the total number of participants in your EOC project that are simultaneously enrolled in one or more federally funded programs. Furthermore, please provide the number of participants that, in addition to EOC, also partic ipated in Upward Bound (UB), Upward Bund Math
-Science (UBMS), Veterans Upward Bound (VUB), Talent Search (TS), GEAR UP, Student Support Services (SSS), another federally
-funded program; or two or more federally–funded programs. **I .**  **Target Schools (if applicable)** Those EOC project s that serve target school s must provide for each target school the school’s identification number in the Common Core of Data (CCD) of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the name of the school , and its city, state, and zip code . The CCD contains valuable information on individual American schools, such as race and ethnicity and number of students eligible for free or reduced
- price meals. A Web link will appear on the Web application to assist you in finding the NCES school identification number for each o f your target schools. The online version of the form will be pre
- populated for schools listed in your previous year's APR; please be sure to check all data for accuracy, including the NCES ID numbers. Delete any schools that you no longer serve and add any new schools. In addition, please provide the number of students served at each target school. Projects should discuss any changes in target schools with their program /grants specialist before submitting the APR. Projects may not add or drop target schools without written approval from the program/grants specialist. The APR is not a vehicle for obtaining approval of changes in your target schools. If a project is phasing out a school (i.e., continuing to serve students in a school previously served by the EOC project but not adding new students), the project should include the school in the list as they would any others; the list in Section II should include all approved schools that the project served in 2011– 12. If a project did not provide services to students in a school in 2011
- 12, that school should be dropped from the list.10

**J . Invitational Priorities (if applicable)**  The FY 2011 EOC grant competition encouraged applicants to address one or both of the invitational priorities listed belo w . If your project addressed either or both of these priorities, please provide the information requested.
1. The Secretary encourages applicants to work with appropriate State agencies to use data from State longitudinal data systems or to obtain data fro m reliable third
- party sources when providing information on the implementation of their EOC projects and their participants’ outcomes. If applicable to your project, list the data systems that your project utilized. 2. The Secretary encourages applican ts to coordinate project services with school
- level partners and other community resources in order to carry out projects that are cost
- effective and best meet the needs of adult learners, including veterans. If applicable to your project, list the commu nity organizations and school
- level partners with whom your project collaborated or coordinated activities and services . **Definitions that Apply to Section III and IV** Please note the definitions of the following terms that are used frequently in the rema inder of the document. Secondary school diploma : A level attained by individuals who meet or exceed the coursework and performance standards for high school completion established by the individual’s state. Alternative education program : A high schoo l equivalency program (e.g., GED) or other alternative education program . Equivalent of a secondary school diploma : A General Education Development (GED) program of study that meets or exceeds the coursework and performance standards for adult learners who have not obtained a high school diploma or high school certificate or diploma issued by a state or high school.11

Secondary school graduate: R ecipients of a secondary school diploma or other equivalent degree or certificate, including GEDs. Institution of higher education : A n educational institution as defined in sections 101 and 102 of the Higher Education Act. Postsecondary education dropout : Participants who left a postsecondary education program between the beginning of one school year and the begi nning of the next school year without earning a postsecondary degree. Program of Postsecondary Education : A formal instructional program whose curriculum is designed primarily for students who are beyond the compulsory age for high school. This includes programs whose purpose is academic or career and technical, and excludes secondary career and technical education and adult basic education. Enroll ed in postsecondary education : A participant who has completed the registration requirements (except for t he payment of tuition and fees) at the institution that he or she is attending. Acceptance but deferred enrollment : A participant who has received an acceptance letter from the institution that he or she will attend, but cannot enroll in the fall semeste r immediately following participation in the EOC program for reasons determined by the institution. The institution , not the participant, defers enrollment until the next term . **Section III: Educational Status of Participants (at time of first service in r eporting year)**  Section III requests data on the educational status of participants at time of first service in the reporting period. For example, if a participant was a secondary school dropout when first served in October 2011, he or she should be count ed in Section III as such, even if the participant reenrolled over the course of the reporting period. **A . Educational Status Participants**  A 1. Adult without a secondary school credential , enrolled as a high school senior or i n an alternative education program at a level equivalent to a senior
-- Report the number of participants 19 years or older enrolled as a high school senior or in an alternative education program that is organized by grade and are at an academic level equivalent to that of a high sc hool senior at the time of first service in the reporting period. Note : For a student enrolled in an alternative education program that is not organized by grade , the project, in determining if the student is at a grade level equivalent to a high school senior at the time of first service, should consider the grade at which the student left high school and other evidence of his or her academic achievement as well as the level of the participant’s coursework in the alternative education program
-- is it c om parable to senior level work? A 2. Adult without a secondary school credential , not enrolled in high school or an alternative education program at a level equivalent to a high school senior
-- Report the number of participants 19 years or12

older who do not have a high school diploma or equivalency credential . Report also the number of adult participants enrolled in high school or in an alternative education program that is not at a level equivalent to a high school senior. A3 . High school graduate or hig h school equivalency graduate not already enrolled in a postsecondary school
-- Report in this category the number of participants, regardless of age, who, at the time of first service in the reporting period, had already obtained a high school diploma or high school equivalency credential, but who had not enrolled in a program of postsecondary education. A4 . Postsecondary dropout with a secondary school diploma or credential
-- Report in this category the number of participants, regardless of age, who, at the time of first service in the budget period, had a secondary school diploma or credential and had dropped out of postsecondary education . A5 . P ost secondary dropout without a secondary school diploma or credential
-- Report in this category the number of postsecondary dropouts, regardless of age, who, at the time of first service in the reporting period, did not have a secondary school diploma. A6 . Potential p ostsecondary transfer
-- Report here the number of participants, who had already obtained a certificate or two
-year degree but who, at the time of first service in the budget period, demonstrated an interest in further postsecondary study (e.g., second associate degree, transfer from two -year to four
-year degree program). A7 . Postsecondary stud ent -- Report in this category the number of participants, regardless of age, enrolled in programs of postsecondary education at the time of first s ervice in the reporting period. A8 . Unknown
-- Report here the number of participants whose educational sta tus at time of first service is either unknown or unconfirmed. A9 . Total – Sum of Section III A1 through A8 **B .**  **Educational Status of Secondary School -** **Age Students** B 1 . High school non
- senior -- Report the number of participants in grades nine, ten, and eleven at the time of first service in the reporting period. Include twelfth graders in line B 2 . Note: Some school districts include ninth grade as part of junior high school. For consistent national data collection and reporting, however, please us e the definitions provided above. B 2 . High school senior or in an alternative education program (12th grade only)
-- Report the number of participants who were high school seniors at the time of first service in the reporting period. Include individuals enrolled in alternative education programs that are organized by grade who are at an academic level of a high school senior at the time of first service. B 3 . Secondary school dropout (not older than 18 years) — Report participants that were secondary scho ol dropouts at the time of first service in the reporting year and had not reentered high school or enrolled in an alternative education program13

B4 . Other participants not older than 18 years — Report here participants that do not belong in any of the first three categories in this sub section . For example, in this category report participants not older than 18 years who are enrolled in an alternative education program at an academic level below that of a high school senior and participants enrolled in mid dle school. B 5 . Total — Sum of Section III B1 through B4 Note : The s um of S ection III A9 and B 5 should equal S ection II A3 **Section IV : Educational Status of Participants (at end of the reporting period or for fall term 2012**  **) and Postsecondary Placement** **s by type and control of the postsecondary institutions** This section of the annual report is your opportunity to report on your project’s progress in meeting its approved objectives (Parts A, B, C, and D ). In addition, Part E of this section collects in formation on the postsecondary placements of participants by type and control of the postsecondary institutions. The APR Web application will list each of the standard objectives and will be pre
- populated with the approved targets (percentages) for your p roject derived from the Program Profile sheet submitted with your approved FY 2011 grant application or subsequently amended. Should you discover a data entry error in these percentages, please contact your program/grants specialist. **Note that each obj ective refers to a certain group of participants that forms the denominator for the**  **percentage of students who met the objective** . For the second objective (financial aid application), for example, the denominator is participants who at the time of first s ervice in the reporting period were high school seniors or equivalent in alternative education programs, high school graduates, recipients of high school equivalency credentials, postsecondary dropouts, or potential postsecondary transfers. **Consider only the students included in the denominator in entering values for each objective in**  **Section IV.** Note that some individuals counted in Section III are not included in any of the new standard objectives (for example, III.A7, postsecondary students ) . Section IV does not request information on these participants. Please enter a positive numeric value in each field; for those not applicable to your project, enter zero (0). If more than one response is possible for a given participant, choose the most recent status. **A. Objective: Secondary School Diploma** ___% of participants served during the project year that did not have a secondary school diploma or its equivalent at time of first service in the project year will receive a secondary school diploma or i ts equivalent during the project year. Note : For a definition of alternative education programs for purposes of the APR, please see section titled “Definitions that apply to sections III and IV”. For this objective, the denominator is the participants reported in Section III A1, A2, A5, B1, B2, B3 , and B4 (minus deceased) .14

A1. Received s econdary school diploma or its equivalent – Report the number of participants who at the time of first service during the project year lacked a secondary school dip loma or equivalency credential who received a secondary school credential during the reporting period. A2. E nrolled in an alternative education program but did not complete – Report the number participants who at the time of first service in the reportin g year did not have a secondary school diploma (or equivalent) who enrolled in an alternative education program during the reporting year but did not complete the program . A3. Enrolled in high school but did not complete
- Report the number participants w ho at the time of first service in the reporting year did not have a secondary school diploma (or equivalent) who enrolled in high school during the reporting year but did not receive a diploma . A4 . N ot enrolled in high school or an alternative education program -- — Report the number of p articipants who at the beginning of the reporting period lacked a secondary school diploma and did not enroll in high school or an alternative education program . A5 . Deceased — Report on the number of participants served du ring the reporting year who did not have a secondary school credential at the time of first service in the reporting period who died during the reporting year. A6 . Unknown – Report the number of participants who at the time of first service in the project year lacked a high school diploma or equivalency credentials and whose educational status at the end of the reporting year is either unknown or unconfirmed. A7 . Total
-- The total should equal the sum of Section I II . A1 , A2, A5, B1, B2, B3 , and B4
**B . Objective: Financial Aid**  **Application** ___% of participants served during the project year who at time of first service in the project year were not already enrolled in a postsecondary education program and who: 1) were high school seniors or equivale nts in alternative education programs; 2) were high school graduates; or 3) had obtained a high school equivalency certificate will apply for financial aid during the project year. For this objective, the denominator is the participants reported in Section III A1, A3, A4, A 6 , and B2 . T he numerator for O bjective B is the number of participants who actually applied for student financial aid during the reporting period (Section IV, B1) . Receiving services related to financial aid from the project is insufficient grounds for counting a participant in Section IV, B 1 ; the individual must have actually applied for the aid. Applications for financial aid include scholarship applications, student loan applications, U.S. Department of Education federal student fi nancial aid forms, and state applications for financial aid. B1. Completed a financial aid application — Report the number of participants under consideration who actually applied for student financial aid during the reporting period.15

B2. D id not compl ete a financial aid application — Report the number of students under consideration who did not complete a student financial aid application during the reporting period. B 3 . Unknown — Report the number of participants under consideration whose financial aid a pplication status at the end of the reporting period is either unknown or unconfirmed. B4 . Total —Total should equal the sum for Section I II A 1, A3, A4, A6, and B 2 . **C. Objective: Postsecondary Education Admissions** ___% of participants served during th e project year who at time of first service in the project year were not already enrolled in a postsecondary education program and who: 1) were high school seniors or equivalents in alternative education programs; 2) were high school graduates; or 3) had o btained a high school equivalency certificate will apply for postsecondary admission during the project year. For this objective, the denominator is the participants reported in Section III A1, A3, A4, A 6 and B2 . The numerator for Objective C is the nu mber of participants who, during the reporting year, actually applied for admission to postsecondary educ ation (Section IV, C1). Do not include application s to programs in which students take postsecondary courses while still in high school. Receiving as sistance from the project in applying for admission is insufficient grounds for including a participant in Section IV, C 1 ; the individual must have actually applied for admission to a postsecondary school. C1. Applied for admission to a postsecondary edu cation program — Report the number of participants under consideration who applied for admission during the reporting period. C2. Did not apply for admission to a postsecondary education program — Report the number of students under consideration who did not apply for postsecondary admission during the reporting period. C 3 . Unknown — Report here the number of participants under consideration whose educational admission status at the end of the budget period is either unknown or unconfirmed. C4 . Total —Total should equal the sum of S ection I II , A1, A3, A4, A6, and B 2 . **D. Objective: Postsecondary Education Enrollment** ___% of secondary school graduates (or equivalents) who were served during the project year, and who were not already enrolled in a postsecon dary education school at time of first service in the project year, will enroll in a postsecondary education program during each project year (or by the end of the net fall term), or will have received notification by the fall term of acceptance but deferred enrollment until the next academic term (e.g., spring term). When completing the APR for the 2011
- 12 reporting year, the on
- line Web application will require e very project to indicate , by selecting one of the two options discussed below, which interpretation of the objective was followed when the project established its postsecondary enrollment objective in its FY 2011 application. This will help guide the Department to accurately calculate each project’s PE points for this objective. Projects will **N OT**  be allowed to change their selection wit h in the same grant cycle to16

maintain consistency in calculation of PE poi nts. Once an interpretation has been made in the 2011
- 12 APR, it cannot be change d for the remainder of the grant cycle . The interpretatio ns are as follows;

 Option 1 : The denominator for this objective would include only those participants that received a secondary school diploma or its equivalent during the reporting year (Section IV A1), **OR**

 Option 2 : The denominator for this objecti ve would include participants that received a secondary school diploma or its equivalent during the reporting period (Section IV, A1) and participants who ha d a secondary schoo l diploma or credential at the time of first service ( S ection III A3 , A4, and A6 during the reporting year ) . D1. Enrolled in postsecondary education program (first time enrollment or reentry)
-- Report the number of participants under consideration who enrolled in postsecondary education either for the first time or as reentry stu dents during the reporting period or the subsequent fall 2011 term or the spring term if the institution deferred enrollment . If the project is aware that a participant enrolled and then withdrew, the participant should still be counted as enrolled. Tak ing postsecondary courses while still in high school does not constitute enrollment in a program of postsecondary education. D2. Did not enroll in a postsecondary education program -- Report the number of students under consideration who did not enroll in postsecondary education during the reporting period or the fall 201 2 term. D 3 . Deceased — Report on the number of participants served during the reporting year who had a secondary school credential at the time of first service in the reporting period w ho died during the reporting year. D 4 . Unknown
-- Report here the number of participants under consideration whose educational status at the end of the reporting period is either unknown or unconfirmed. D 5 . Tota l
-- If selecting option 1 for the denomi nator, the total should equal Section IV A1. If selecting option 2 for the denominator, the total should equal sum of Section IV A1 and S ection III A3 , A4, and A6 . **E. Postsecondary Placements (Types of Institutions)** For participants enrolled in a program of postsecondary education, as reported in Section IV, D 1 above, indicate the number of participants by type of postsecondary institution. The total (E8) should equal the number in S ection IV, D1. For definitions of the types of postsecondary institu tions, please see language concerning Title IV programs in sections 101 and 102 of Title I of the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 (P.L. 105
- 244) ( http://www.ed.gov/ policy/highered/leg/hea98/sec101.html ). In addition, for a definition of a proprietary school, use the definition of a private for
- profit institution used by The U. S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) .17

Private for
-profit institutions: Institutions in which the individual(s) or agency in control receives compensation other than wages, rent, or other expenses for the assumption of ri sk (e.g., proprietary schools) (see: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/supnotes/2012
- n01.asp ). Note: Programs of postsecondary education includes vocation and technical degree programs, associate degree programs, and bachelor degree programs.