Interested in receiving regular communications about program deadlines, training opportunities, and other Choice-related news? Email [email protected] with your name, school, and contact information so we can add you to our newsletter list and keep you updated. Important dates for the entire school year can be found here on DPI’s website.

 

September 2026

September 15

• Deadline for schools that offered a SNSP summer school program to file the Summer School Count Report.

September 18

• Schools take the 3^rd Friday in September count of SNSP pupils enrolled in their school.
• Using the SNSP Portal, the school must submit to the DPI all eligible 2026-27 student applications and transfer request forms that haven’t previously been submitted to the DPI. Only applications and transfer requests that have been determined eligible by this date may be submitted to DPI and counted in the 3^rd Friday in September Pupil Count Report.  As a reminder, in order for an application to be eligible, the school must have received a copy of the IEP/services plan in response to the school’s email requesting verification that the pupil met the SNSP IEP/services plan requirement.  Any application and transfer request submissions that are started but not completed by this date will be marked ineligible.
• Last day to edit the 2026-27 student application and transfer request submissions in the SNSP Portal that were started between September 1, 2026 and September 18, 2026.
• Last day to obtain an agreement of services for a student signed and dated by the parent/guardian and school, in order for that student to be eligible to receive a payment for the 3^rd Friday in September. Once the school and the parent/guardian have agreed upon the services to be provided, a new agreement is not required unless there is a change in the agreed upon services. DPI recommends schools use the agreement of services optional template on the School Application & Transfer Request Processing webpage to create the agreement of services.
• Last day to submit a student withdrawal in the SNSP Portal for any SNSP student that leaves the school, no longer meets the SNSP requirements, or ceases to participate in the SNSP between August 31, 2026 and this date. See the Continuing & Transfer Student Eligibility Bulletin for the situations that would make a student on longer eligible for the SNSP.
• Deadline for schools to update the number of scholarships available in the School Information Update: SNSP Scholarships and Grades Available in the SNSP Portal if all of the following apply:
  • The school had an expected SNSP payment amount based on the 2026-27 ITP of $50,000 or more;
  • The school was required to file a surety bond by June 1; and
  • The difference between the expected payment amount based on the ITP and the revised expected payment amount is $50,000 or more.
  • NOTE: These schools must also submit a surety bond based on the revised expected payment or a rider increasing the bond amount by November 2, 2026.  See the Student Application and Transfer Request Information Bulletin for additional information.

September 30

• Deadline for schools to submit the 3^rd Friday in September Pupil Count Report.

By the end of September

• DPI sends out the September state aid payments to eligible SNSP schools based on each school’s Preliminary Enrollment Report.

 

October 2026

October 1, 2026

• Deadline for SNSP schools that participated in the SNSP in 2025-26 to submit a report to the school’s governing body that includes the information specified in Stats. § 118.305(4)(c), relating to the school’s use of seclusion and restraint in the 2025-26 school year. All schools that participated in the SNSP in 2025-26 must submit this report, even if the school did not practice seclusion and restraint.

October 15, 2026

• Schools that participated in the SNSP in the 2025-26 school year must submit the financial audit for the 2025-26 school year.
• Deadline for all private schools in Wisconsin to complete the PI-1207 Private School Report (school-wide enrollment as of the third Friday in September). Information on completing this report is available on the Submit PI-1207 Data Online The report stays open until December 15 for corrections identified through the September 2026 Enrollment Audits.