On Friday, June 27, 2025, the IT Department successfully completed the End-of-Year process in PowerSchool. This process closed 2024–25 enrollment records and created 2025–26 enrollments for continuing students, who now appear as “Active.”
Important reminders:
· Default Term: The Term (shown in the upper right-hand corner of the screen) still shows the 2024-25 school year. It will be updated to 2025-26 during a maintenance window on Sunday, July 6, after 10:00 AM. This applies to PowerSchool Administrator, PowerTeacher, and the Parent/Student Portal. For PowerSchool Administrator users, if you change the Term to a prior year, please remember to change it back to 2025-26 when you are done.
· Dates in PowerSchool:
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First Day of Enrollment in School: Use the actual first day of attendance.
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First Day of Class: Must be on or after the enrollment date.
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Withdrawals (Transfer Out): Use the day after the last day of attendance as the exit date.
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Schedule Changes: The last day of a class should be the day after the last day of actual class attendance.
Enrollment: Schools now have full access to all 2025-26 students, including incoming students previously enrolled at other schools at the end of the 2024-25 school year. Pre-Registered students are now Active at your school. Important: Ensure that your Term is set to 2025-26 before enrolling students into your school. Please refer to the Enrollment Handbook for specific instructions.
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Duplicate Student IDs: Before enrolling any student, use the District Students Search to check for prior enrollment in any San Diego Unified school. DO NOT create a duplicate ID. Refer to the Preventing Duplicate Student IDs job aid for more information.
· Incomplete Enrollments: If the student demographic page is not completed and submitted during enrollment, the student will not be considered fully enrolled, and their enrollment will not be included in the total school count. To identify these students, run the Incomplete Enrollment Report, then finalize their enrollment process by completing and submitting the demographics page. To run this report, select sqlReports from the Start Page, then expand the group of Enrollment reports.
· Pre-Registered Students: Students enrolled after Monday, June 30, 2025, may initially appear as Pre-Registered in PowerSchool. An overnight process will make these students Active the next day.
· Transferring Students: Effective Monday, June 30, 2025, schools can use the District Search and Student Transfer pages to transfer active or inactive students. Please note that the last day schools can use the Transfer Active Student process is Friday, August 15, 2025. After this date, you will no longer be able to transfer a student who is active at another school. Please refer to the Enrollment Handbook for information on transferring students.
· School Setup: The following pages are accessible to Power Users at each school to prepare for the 2025-26 school year. As a reminder, these pages will be locked after August 26, 2025. This cutoff date will be earlier for sites that begin earlier than August 11, 2025.
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Bell Schedules
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Calendar Setup
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Days
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Periods
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Parent/Student Portal: Effective Monday, June 30, 2025, the Parent/Student Portal will be disabled to prevent parents and students from seeing 2025-26 scheduling information. When your school is ready, you can re-enable the Parent/Student Portal for the 2025-26 school year. Please note that the IT Department will enable the PowerSchool Parent/Student Portal on Friday, August 8, 2025, at 12:00 PM for schools who have not already done so. If necessary, schools may disable the portal again after noon on that day. However, if your school chooses to disable the portal, please be sure to enable access for parents and students by the first day of school. For instructions on how to re-enable or further information about the Parent/Student Portal, please refer to the Parent and Student Portal Administration Handbook.
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Active Directory: Student accounts will be disabled in early July for graduating seniors or students not continuing in 2025-26.
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School Finder: The School Finder website has been updated to reflect 2025-26 as the current school year.
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Handbooks and Job Aids: Please refer to the PowerSchool Handbooks and Job Aids page for updated PowerSchool handbooks and job aids.
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Training: Please register in Professional Learning for upcoming PowerSchool Training and Open Labs.