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Indicator 14 is one of the 17 Indicators that the United States Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) uses to see whether school districts are following special education law and whether special education is improving outcomes for students with disabilities.
Indicator 14 reports whether our students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) are in school or have a job one year after they leave high school by graduating, aging out at age 22, or dropping out.
Indicator 14 tells us about the lives of our students with IEPs one year after they have left high school. It is one way to help us understand whether students' education prepared them for adult life.
Starting in 2023, Massachusetts is moving to statewide data collection. This will give us a more comprehensive picture of the lives of our students with IEPs one year after they have left high school. This change to all-state data collection will improve Massachusetts' ability to disaggregate and analyze data in a statistically significant way and to better compare Indicator 14 data with graduation data (Indicator 1) and dropout data (Indicator 2).
Data collection occurs during the summer and early fall. Districts survey each former student with an IEP using the Massachusetts After High School Survey. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) offers the survey online in six languages, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Haitian Creole, and Vietnamese.
The U.S. Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) requires that we report "the percent of youth who are no longer in secondary school, had IEPs in effect at the time they left school, and within one year of exiting high school were:
The table below includes four-years of data as reported in MA's FFY 2020 APR which was submitted to OSEP early in February 2022.
Administrator Letter — July 2025
Indicator 14 Webinar Slides — July 2025
Indicator 14 District Reports — April 2025
Indicator 14 PowerPoint
Massachusetts Indicator 14
Statewide Indicator Data
U.S. Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) SPP/APR Letters
Indicator 14 Census Letter — July 2025
FFY 2024 Indicator 14 Step-by-Step Instructions and Guidance
Printable Outreach Letter — English
Printable Outreach Letter — Cape Verdean Creole
Printable Outreach Letter — Chinese
Printable Outreach Letter — Haitian Creole
Printable Outreach Letter — Portuguese
Printable Outreach Letter — Spanish
Printable Outreach Letter — Vietnamese
Printable Survey — English
Printable Survey — Cape Verdean Creole
Printable Survey — Chinese
Printable Survey — Haitian Creole
Printable Survey — Portuguese
Printable Survey — Spanish
Printable Survey — Vietnamese
Sample Script for Telephone Contact
Student Contact Information Sheet
Last Updated: July 21, 2025