Alternative Education Campus (AEC) Collections

Pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute 22-7-604.5 (2) (a), the Colorado Department of Education is directed to aid in the collection of data to all district school boards to file requests for public schools which desire to be considered alternative education campuses. This website contains resources concerning the data collection for the eligibility criteria for alternative education campus designation.

Alternative Education Campuses (AECs) have a specialized School Performance Framework (SPF). As part of this specialized SPF, AECs are allowed to submit optional measures based on local data. This collection is the method by which AECs can submit their approved optional measure data to be reported in their AEC SPF (see State Board of Education Rules 1 CCR 301-57 for specific guidance on this policy).

Application/Renewal Collection

Actual Measures

During the actual measures data collection, AECs will submit the measures and data they intend to include in the next AEC SPF cycle. In this stage of the collection, both the measure names and aggregated data for those measures are submitted. This collection is voluntary for all AEC schools.

Example: if the next AEC SPF cycle is the 2026 AEC SPF, then LEAs will submit actual measures and data for the 2026 AEC SPF collected over the course of the 2025-2026 school year (or aggregated over the last three school years).

Resources by Reporting Year

2025-2026
2026-2027

2025-2026

Deadlines

File Layout and Definitions

Business Rules

2026-2027

Deadlines

File Layout and Definitions

Business Rules

General Resources

Training
Additional Resources

Training

Office Hours

Weekly office hours for the AEC collections take place on Thursday afternoons. You can sign up for a half-hour conversation with B Sanders/April Thompson 1:00-3:00pm to get your questions answered about the AEC Collections.