**OMB Approval No.: 1840-0830**

**Expiration Date:  11/30/2026**

**Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) Program**

**Form for Annual Performance Report**

**for Program Year 2022-23**

# Section I:  Project Identification, Certification and Warning 

## *A.	Project Identification*

*B.	Certification:*****We certify that the performance report information reported and submitted electronically on _________ is readily verifiable.  The information reported is accurate and complete to the best of our knowledge.

*C.	Warning:*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.  Further Federal funds or other benefits may be withheld under this program unless this report is completed and filed as required by existing law (20 U.S.C. 1231a) and regulations (34 CFR 75.591 and 75.720).

**Authority:  Public Law 102-325, as amended.**

According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number.  The valid OMB control number for this information collection is 1840-0830.  Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 8 hours per response, including time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information.  The obligation to respond to this collection is required to obtain or retain benefit (Education General Administrative Regulations, 34 CFR 75.591 and 75.720; program regulations, 34 CFR Part 644 and Title IV, Section 402A and 402F of Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (Public Law 102-325)).  If you have comments or concerns regarding the status of your individual submission of this form, please contact Federal TRIO Programs, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20202 directly.  [Note: Please do not return the completed form**to this address.]

**Section II:  Demographic Profile of Project Participants, Target Schools, Invitational Priorities**

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**Section II:  Demographic Profile of Project Participants, Target Schools, Invitational Priorities (Cont.)**

**H**.  TARGET SCHOOLS (if applicable)

Please list all the target schools served during this budget period. For each target school, include the school’s identification number listed in the Common Core of Data (CCD) of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the name of the school, its city, state, zip code, and the number of participants served during the reporting period.  A Web link to the CCD data will appear on the Web application to assist you in finding the NCES school identification numbers for your target schools.

This section will be pre-populated with the list of target schools the project submitted in the previous year’s Annual Performance Report (APR).  If there are any changes in the target schools, please update or correct the data in the pre-populated list of target schools.  Also, please check the pre-populated NCES identification numbers for accuracy as identification numbers may change over time.

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**I.**COMPETITIVE PREFERENCE PRIORITIES (if applicable)

1. In the most recent EOC grant competition, applications that received points for Competitive Preference Priority #1 described projects that addressed the academic needs of military- or veteran-connected students. 

Your project received points for this CPP and is therefore required to respond [yes/no]  ß autopopulated] 

Please provide the number of veterans, active-duty military, spouses of active-duty military, and children of active-duty military served by the EOC project during the during this 2022-23 performance period.  

**Military or Veteran connected students 		*NUMBER***

1.  Veterans						________

2.  Active duty military					________

3.  Spouse of active duty military			________

4.  Child of active-duty military				________

5.  Total							________

2. In the most recent EOC grant competition, applications that received points for Competitive Preference Priority #2 described project(s) that fostered flexible and affordable paths to obtaining knowledge and skills.

Please explain, during the 2022-23 performance period, how your grant implemented programming designed to create or expand opportunities for individuals to obtain recognized postsecondary credentials through the demonstration of prior knowledge and skills, such as competency-based learning. In your response, indicate the number and types of participants served by this programming, as well as any benefits achieved.

Your project received points for this CPP and is therefore required to respond [yes/no]  ß [autopopulated] 

Describe Project(s)

3. In the most recent EOC grant competition, grantees submitted a logic model informed by research or evaluation findings that suggest how the key project component(s) is/are likely to improve relevant outcomes.

**Implementation:**Please describe how your project has implemented the activities outlined in the logic model submitted in your grant application. Your response should include (for the 2022-23 performance period): 

· the plan used for implementation, including current stage;  

· the number of participants served through the intervention; 

· the activities connected to the research or evaluation findings cited in your grant application; 

· the inputs, outputs, results, and/or outcomes to date. 

Test box (500 words or less)

**SECTION III:  Educational Status of EOC Participants (at the time of first service in the reporting year)**

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**Section IV:  Educational Status of EOC Participants (at end of reporting period or for the following fall)**

In this section all the standard objectives are listed for your EOC project. The percentage for each of these standard objectives will be pre-populated in the online Web application for all grantees. The pre-populated numbers are based on the information provided on the Program Profile sheet submitted with your approved FY 2021 application.  No changes may be made to these percentages on this form.  However, if any of the pre-populated numbers reflects a data entry error, you must contact your assigned program specialist to resolve the problem. So as to allow the Department to report aggregated data gathered in a uniform manner, all EOC grantees must report outcomes based on the standard objectives identified in the FY 2021 application.

To better facilitate data collection, please enter a positive numeric value in each field. For fields not applicable to your project, please enter zero (0).  If more than one response is possible for a given participant, choose the most recent status. Also, please refer to the “Definitions that Apply” section in the APR instructions for additional information on commonly used terms, e.g., secondary school diploma, and alternative education program, etc., that are new in this APR.

**A.****OBJECTIVE:  Secondary School Diploma

_____% of participants served during the project year that did not have a secondary school diploma or its equivalent at the time of first service in the project year will receive a secondary school diploma or its equivalent during the project year. 

The **denominator**is the number of participants who did not have a secondary school diploma or its equivalent at the time of first service in the reporting year project year (sum of Section III A1, A2, A5, B1, B2, B3, and B4) minus the deceased. 

The **numerator**is the number of participants who received a secondary school diploma or equivalent during the project year (Section IV A1).

**B.**OBJECTIVE:  Financial Aid Applications

_____% 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 equivalents 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. 

The **denominator** is the number of participants, at the time first service in the reporting period, who are not enrolled in postsecondary education, and who are high school seniors or equivalents in alternative programs or who have a secondary diploma or equivalent (Section III, A1, A3, A4, A6, and B2)

The**numerator** is the number of participants who applied for financial aid during the project year (Section IV, B1).

**C.**OBJECTIVE:  Postsecondary Education Admissions

____% 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 equivalents in alternative education programs; (2) were high school graduates; or (3) had obtained a high school equivalency certificate will apply for postsecondary admissions during the project year. 

The **denominator** is the number of participants, at the first time of service in the reporting period, who are not enrolled in postsecondary education, and who are high school seniors or equivalents in alternative programs or who have a secondary diploma or equivalent (Section III, A1, A3, A4, A6, and B2)

The **numerator** is the number of participants who applied for admission to a postsecondary education programs (Section IV, C1)

**D.**OBJECTIVE:  Postsecondary Education Enrollment

____% of participants who graduate from secondary school and are not already enrolled in a postsecondary education program will enroll in a postsecondary education program immediately following participation in an EOC program or will have received notification, by the fall semester, of acceptance but deferred enrollment until the next academic semester (e.g. spring semester).

Please note that the option selected in the 2022-23 APR for the postsecondary education enrollment objective will be pre-populated.  **As noted in the APR instructions for the 2022-23 APR, the interpretation selected cannot be changed for the remainder of the current grant cycle to maintain consistent calculations across all assessment years**.

□ 	Option 1: The **denominator** for this objective would include participants that received a secondary school diploma or its equivalent during the reporting year (Section IV, A1)**.** The **numerator** is the number of participants served who received a secondary school diploma or equivalent during the reporting year and enrolled in a postsecondary education program (Section IV, D1).

**or**

□  	Option 2: The **denominator** for this objective would include participants that received a secondary school diploma or its equivalent during the reporting year (Section IV, A1) **and** those participants who had a secondary school diploma or credential at the time of first service (Section III, A3, A4, and A6 minus deceased reported in Section IV, D4) during the reporting year. The **numerator**is the number of participants served who received a secondary school diploma or equivalent during the reporting year and enrolled in a postsecondary education program (Section IV, D1) **and** the number of participants who already had a secondary school diploma or credential at the time of first service and enrolled in a postsecondary education program (Section IV, D2).

Note:   Because Section IV, A5 identified deceased participants, IV, A1 did not include such students; the calculation for Option 1 will therefore not involve subtracting deceased participants from the denominator.  On the other hand, Section IIIA *did not* identify deceased students; therefore, in the calculation for Option 2, deceased students in IV, D4 will be subtracted from the denominator.

**E.**Postsecondary Placements (Types of Institutions)

Please indicate the number of participants enrolled in postsecondary education for each type of postsecondary institution listed

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