Data Collection Guidance for Secondary Transition

State Guidance, Transition, ARD/IEP Supports

This resource was updated in November 2025 to clarify age ranges for SPPI 13 data and the ARD committee manager role in ensuring the IEP meets compliance with special education requirements, including secondary transition.
It is important to note that determining an IEP's compliance with secondary transition requirements for the purpose of SPPI 13 reporting is not a required ARD committee activity, does not require ARD committee agreement, and may be completed by appropriate LEA personnel outside of the ARD committee meeting.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) collects data from local educational agencies (LEAs) for the State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR). LEAs are required to provide valid, timely, and reliable data that reflect the measurement for each State Performance Plan Indicator (SPPI).

SPPI 13 measures the percent of youth with individualized education programs (IEPs) aged 16 and above with an IEP that includes:

Appropriate measurable postsecondary goals that are annually updated and based upon an age appropriate transition assessment;
Transition services, including courses of study, that will reasonably enable the student to meet those postsecondary goals; and
Annual IEP goals related to the student's transition services needs.

There also must be evidence that the student was invited to the admission, review, and dismissal (ARD) committee meeting where transition services are to be discussed and evidence that, if appropriate, a representative of any participating agency that is likely to be responsible for providing or paying for transition services was invited to the ARD meeting with the prior consent of the parent or student who has reached the age of majority.

The Data Collection Guidance for Secondary Transition document may be used by school staff to find evidence of compliance with secondary transition requirements in the IEP. For the 2025-2026 school year, SPPI 13 data will be reported through the Special Education Data System (SPEDS) Summer Submission in the Texas Student Data System (TSDS). The data collection window begins on July 1, 2025, and ends on June 30, 2026, to align with the federal reporting period.

For support to complete the data submission through SPEDS, visit the TEA website.