Short Text: You have submitted inaccurate or incomplete data for students with a shortened school day.
Long Text: Inaccurate or incomplete data submitted for students with a shortened school day. To resolve this warning, review and update the data to ensure it accurately reflects the student’s schedule. Please ensure the following:
- If a student attends fewer hours per week than their peers, mark the student as having a shortened school day (Shortened School Day Indicator = True).
- Otherwise, set the indicator to "False."
- If the (Shortened School Day Indicator is set to "True" then also provide the following:
- School Weekly Hours data element: defines the school hours attended by the Shortened School Day student AND
- Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers data element: the reduction in hours attended per week as compared to peers.
- Verify that the School Weekly Hours are greater than Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers.
How to Fix: You are seeing this warning because there is a mismatch in the data elements submitted for a student with a shortened school day.
The validation logic throws the warning when “School Weekly Hours is less than Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers,” the concern here being if the student attends too few hours per week that it may be difficult for LEAs to ensure FAPE responsibilities are being met. If the student actually in reality attends school fewer hours than the Shortened Weekly Hours Compared To Peers then LEAs should acknowledge the warning.
Scenario 1: Student does NOT have a shortened school day. Make sure to:
- Set the Shortened School Day indicator to “False.”
- Do not enter a value for School Weekly Hours (leave this blank, NULL).
- Do not enter a value for Shortened Hours Compared to Peers (leave this blank, NULL).
- Set the Shortened School Day indicator to “True.”
- Enter a value for School Weekly Hours (e.g., 20).
- The School Weekly Hours (the number of hours student attends) must be less than/smaller than the total number of standard peer attendance hours.
- The School Weekly Hours (the number of hours student attends) must be greater than/bigger than the Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers (reduction in hours attended per week as compared to peers).
- Enter a value for Shortened Hours Compared to Peers (e.g., 15).
- Set the value for Shortened Hours Compared to Peers to the number of hours reduced for the student with a shortened school day as indicated by their IEP.
- The Shortened Hours Compared to Peers (reduction in hours attended per week as compared to peers) must be less than/smaller than the number of hours attended by full-day students.
- School Weekly Hours + Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers = Standard Peer Attendance Hours
- 25 hours of school per week + 5 hours less than peers attend school = 30 hours per standard school week.
Example: District Deb sees Warning 7500 appear for Jill E. Beans who attends Candy Crush High School. Jill is a student with an IEP, and her IEP specifies a shortened school day. The standard number of peer attendance hours required at Candy Crush High is 30 hours per week. Jills IEP states that she only needs to attend school for 4.5 hours a day/22.5 hours per week.
Deb looks at the data in the student information system and compares this to Jill’s SSEPA record in WISEdata Portal. Deb sees the following values:
- Shortened School Day indicator = “True”
- School Weekly Hours = 30
- Shortened Hours Compared to Peers = 22.5
Deb sees that the School Weekly Hours and the Shortened Hours Compared to Peers values are both wrong. School Weekly Hours should be corrected to 22.5 because this is the number of hours Jill attends school per week. Shortened Hours Compared to Peers should be corrected to 7.5 because this is the reduction in hours attended per week by Jill as compared to peers. Deb resets these values in here SIS, the queues a manual validation in WISEdata Portal. After a few hours, Deb refreshes Jill SSEPA record in WISEdata Portal, seeing the corrected values there and the Warning 7500 indicator is gone.
Technical Details:
Business Rule Logic: throw on /sSEPA when any of the following conditions are met:
- ShortenedSchoolDayIndicator = True, AND
- ReductionInHoursPerWeekComparedToPeers = 0
- (If ReductionInHoursPerWeekComparedToPeers is greater than 0, then ShortenedSchoolDayIndicator must be "True."),
- OR
- Either ReductionInHoursPerWeekComparedToPeers is missing or SchoolHoursPerWeek is missing,
- OR
- SchoolHoursPerWeek is less than ReductionInHoursPerWeekComparedToPeers
- OR
- ShortenedSchoolDayIndicator = False, AND ReductionInHoursPerWeekComparedToPeers is greater than 0
Additional Comments
For more info, see the:
- Shortened School Day data element page
- Shortened Weekly Hours Compared to Peers data element page
- School Weekly Hours data element page
10/7/25