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Compensatory Education (Comp Ed)
What is Comp Ed?
- The purpose of Compensatory Education (Comp Ed) programs is to improve the performance of students at risk of dropping out of school through direct instructional services.
- As a goal, the Comp Ed programs seek to provide challenging and meaningful instructional methods to close the achievement gap among students at risk of dropping out of school and their peers.
- Comp Ed services must be part of the delivery of academic instruction supplemental to the regular instructional program.
State Eligibility Criteria
A student at risk of dropping out of school is a student who is under 26 years of age and who:
- Was not advanced from one grade level to the next for one or more school years, unless the student was not advanced from prekindergarten (pre-K) or kindergarten only at the request of the student’s parent.
- Is in grades seven to 12 and did not maintain an average equivalent to 70 on a scale of 100 in two or more subjects in the foundation curriculum during a semester in the preceding or current school year or is not maintaining such an average in two or more subjects in the foundation curriculum in the current semester.
- Did not perform satisfactorily on a state assessment instrument (administered to the student under the TEC, Chapter 39, Subchapter B) and who has not, in the previous or current school year, performed on that instrument or another appropriate instrument at a level equal to at least 110 percent of the level of satisfactory performance on that instrument.
- Is in pre-K, kindergarten, or grades one to three, and did not perform satisfactorily on a readiness test or assessment instrument administered during the current school year.
- Is pregnant or is a parent.
- Has been placed in a DAEP in accordance with the TEC, §37.006, during the preceding or current school year.
- Has been expelled in accordance with the TEC, §37.007, during the preceding or current school year.
- Is currently on parole, probation, deferred prosecution, or other conditional release.
- Was previously reported through the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) as having dropped out of school.
- Is an emergent bilingual student, as defined by the TEC, §29.052.
- Is in the custody or care of the Department of Family and Protective Services or has, during the current school year, been referred to the department by a school official, officer of the juvenile court, or law enforcement official.
- Is homeless.
- Resided in the preceding school year or resides in the current school year in a residential placement facility in a district. Such facilities include: a detention facility, substance abuse treatment facility, emergency shelter, psychiatric hospital, halfway house, cottage home operation, specialized childcare home, or general residential operation.
- Has been incarcerated or has a parent or guardian who has been incarcerated, within the lifetime of the student, in a penal institution as defined by the Texas Penal Code, §1.07.
- Is enrolled in a school district or open-enrollment charter school, that is designated as a dropout recovery school under Section 39.0548.
- Is a chronically absent student, as defined by Section 48.009.
- Is required to attend school under Section 25.085, is not exempted under Section 25.086, and fails to attend school without excuse for 10 or more days or parts of days within a six-month period in the same school year.
