Data Collection

The IDEA Child Count Collection in Vermont gathers data on children with disabilities receiving special education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This collection is crucial for monitoring compliance, planning services, and ensuring that educational resources are effectively allocated to support the needs of these students.

• Special Education Child Count Reporting Instructions
• Special Education Child Count Software Instructions
• Secure AOE file transfer website

Collection opens November 25, 2024 through end of day December 16, 2024 

Please contact the child count team at aoe.childcountinfo@vermont.gov with questions regarding data collections.

The MTSS Survey annually provides the Agency of Education with the data to fulfill the following data collection. This survey becomes available in May each year, with a due date of June 1st or the next business day. 

Act 117 - VSA Title 16, Section 2904, requires that each superintendent shall annually provide to the Vermont Secretary of Education a status of the educational support systems in each school in the supervisory union; how it is funded and how building the capacity of the educational support system is addressed in the School's Continuous Improvement Plan. Included in the report will be a description and justification of how funds received due to Medicaid reimbursement under section 2959a are used.

Tracks special education children by different categories i.e., disability status, type of placement, time spent in various educational placements.

• Reporting Instructions
• Secure File Transfer
• Software Instructions

Please contact the agency's IT Helpdesk at (802) 828-0232 with questions regarding data collections.

Collection of students enrolled at independent schools as of October of each year.

• Software Instructions
• Reporting Instructions

Please contact the agency's Helpdesk at (802) 479-1044 with questions regarding data collections.

School district budget data to determine education spending for determining homestead property tax rates.

• Software Instructions
• Reporting Instructions
• Budget Template

Please contact the agency's Helpdesk at (802) 479-1044 with questions regarding data collections.

Preliminary budget data are used for: 1) creating the sheets for town meetings that estimate individual education property taxes paid after accounting for tax adjustments (income sensitivity); 2) as edit checks for the June 1st approved budget collection; and 3) to estimate the Education Fund reserve for future years.

• Data Reporting Instructions
• Software Instructions

Please contact the department's Helpdesk at (802) 828-1017 with questions regarding data collections.

The Annual Statistical Report (Statbook) enables school districts to comply with Title 16 V.S.A. § 242(4)(B)&(C). The collection provides data on expenditures made and revenues received by school districts.

• Software Instructions
• Reporting Instructions
• Patch Instructions
• Statbook
• Patch Utility

Please contact the agency's Helpdesk at (802) 479-1044 with questions regarding data collections.