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CO Data Validation: Flag Misalignment Between Lunch Status and State Lunch Status Fields

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  • August 24, 2026
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Colorado state reporting in PowerSchool requires a value in the field S_CO_STU_X.StateLunchStatus. The accepted values for S_CO_STU_X.StateLunchStatus are 00 (Not Eligible), 01 (Free Lunch Eligible), and 02 (Reduced Lunch Eligible). However, this field is updated independently of the native LunchStatus field in PowerSchool, with values P (Full Pay), F (Free), and R (Reduced).

 

Could Level Data create a validation rule that flags any student that has a mismatch between the LunchStatus field and the StateLunchStatus field? This is not a hard and fast state reporting rule, but could indicate a problem with data management that needs to be reviewed. 

 

Broadly, the fields should align like this:

S_CO_STU_X.StateLunchStatus    =     LunchStatus

00 = P

01 = F

02 = R