2025-2026 eScholar Support Resources
ANNOUNCEMENTS: (updated
5/20/2026 2:00 pm)
Scheduled Maintenance Notice:
eScholar applications (Student ID, Direct Match and Staff ID) will be
down for a scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, May 26, from 1:00 am – 8:00 am. During this time, applications
will not be available for users and may experience some delays with Edlink
Security. If you need assistance once service is restored, please contact
escholar support team. Thank you for your patience.
DIRECT MATCH:
The April SNAP, TANF, Medicaid statewide batches are available in
eScholar DirectMatch:
|
Program Type |
Public Batch
# |
Non-Public
Batch # |
|
SNAP |
13515 |
13521 |
|
TANF |
13514 |
13520 |
|
Medicaid Free Lunch |
13532 |
13543 |
|
Medicaid Reduced Lunch |
13534 |
13555 |
|
Medicaid All |
13537 |
Districts should download the DM-Index files for SNAP, TANF, Medicaid Free
Lunch and Medicaid Reduced Lunch and load those files into their food service
system and/or local SIS.
2025-2026 eScholar PersonID/DirectMatch
o
Submit
expected student enrollment to eScholar
PersonID for the 2025-2026 school year (ESSY = 2026)
o
Submit
new students to eScholar
PersonID throughout the school year
o
Run
DirectMatch (SNAP, TANF,
Medicaid Free Lunch, Medicaid Reduced Lunch) to determine the students’ lunch
status
o
Email
[email protected] or
[email protected] if
you need accounts created/disabled.
eScholar StaffID:
●
Districts
must submit their current Staff for the 2025-2026 school year (ESSY = 2026).
●
All
staff who need EdLink360, EdLinkOps, LEP, eSER, etc. access must be submitted
to eScholar StaffID for the 2025-2026 school with their MyLA username
(stateuserid).
●
New
eScholar StaffID users should request the accounts from their security
coordinator or email [email protected]
What is eScholar PersonID?
The eScholar Uniq-ID system is used to assign and maintain unique
statewide student identifiers commonly referred to as LASID which are assigned
for students in early-childhood, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary,
and secondary schools. Data collected includes demographic data for students
including address information for some students enrolled in charter schools.
Public and charter schools students are assigned a public LASID, while early
childhood and non-public students are assigned early childhood IDs and
non-publics IDs respectively.
What is eScholar DirectMatch?
The
eScholar DirectMatch system is used
to match student enrollment data against data from proxy systems (SNAP, TANF,
DSNAP, Foster Care, Medicaid-Free, Medicaid-Reduced, etc.) to determine
eligibility for free lunch and to identify students who are considered
economically disadvantaged. DirectMatch also houses the Community Eligibility
Provision (CEP) which calculates the Identified Student Percentage (ISP) to
determine the school system’s eligibility to participate or continue
participation in the CEP program.
What is eScholar StaffID?
The eScholar StaffID system is used to assign and maintain unique statewide staff
identifiers commonly referred to as StaffID. The StaffID application works in
the same way as PersonID. Users who are familiar with PersonID will be able to
apply their knowledge when using StaffID.
For assistance email:
[email protected],
[email protected]
Monthly Program Type Update Schedule
The
monthly program type (SNAP, TANF, DSNAP, Medicaid-Free and Medicaid Reduced)
files are expected to be loaded to DirectMatch by the dates in the table below.
·
A
notice will be posted on the Announcement section of this eScholar Support page
when the files have been loaded to DirectMatch.
·
LDOE
will send an email to all DirectMatch users about the program type files
availability for matching.
·
Districts
will run their own matches in July and August; *LDOE will run the statewide
matches from September – June.
·
A
notice will also be sent through the CNP systems. To register for this
communications, please see the instructions: CNP
Registration for SNAP Update Notifications.
|
Program
Types Direct Certification Data as of
|
Projected Availability Dates |
ACTUAL
Date file was available in DirectMatch |
||||
|
SNAP |
TANF |
Medicaid-Free |
Medicaid-Reduced |
Medicaid
All |
||
|
6/30/2025 |
07/31/2025 |
7/25/2025 |
7/25/2025 |
7/28/2025 |
7/28/2025 |
7/28/2025 |
|
7/31/2025 |
08/04/2025 –
08/15/2025 |
8/4/2025 |
8/4/2025 |
8/8/2025 |
8/8/2025 |
8/8/2025 |
|
8/31/2025 |
09/05/2025 –
09/12/2025* |
9/3/2025 |
9/3/2025 |
9/5/2025 |
9/5/2025 |
9/5/2025 |
|
9/30/2025 |
10/03/2025 –
10/10/2025* |
10/2/2025 |
10/2/2025 |
10/3/2025 |
10/3/2025 |
10/3/2025 |
|
10/31/2025 |
11/07/2025 –
11/14/2025* |
11/6/2025 |
11/6/2025 |
11/10/2025 |
11/10/2025 |
11/10/2025 |
|
11/30/2025 |
12/05/2025 – 12/12/2025* |
12/5/2025 |
12/5/2025 |
12/11/2025 |
12/11/2025 |
12/11/2025 |
|
12/31/2025 |
01/05/2026 –
01/16/2026* |
1/9/2026 |
1/9/2026 |
1/7/2026 |
1/7/2026 |
1/7/2026 |
|
01/31/2026 |
02/06/2026 –
02/13/2026* |
2/2/2026 |
2/2/2026 |
2/4/2026 |
2/4/2026 |
2/4/2026 |
|
02/28/2026 |
03/06/2026 –
03/13/2026* |
3/5/2026 |
3/5/2026 |
3/6/2026 |
3/6/2026 |
3/5/2026 |
|
03/31/2026 |
04/03/2026 –
04/10/2026* |
4/1/2026 |
4/2/2026 |
4/9/2026 |
4/9/2026 |
4/9/2026 |
|
04/30/2026 |
05/04/2026 –
05/15/2026* |
5/5/2026 |
5/5/2026 |
5/12/2026 |
5/12/2026 |
5/12/2026 |
|
05/31/2026 |
06/05/2026 –
06/12/2026* |
|
|
|
|
|
*Statewide kickoff - near match resolution required by school districts
Training Materials
eScholar PersonID (StudentID) Training Slide and
Recordings
|
||
|
Date |
Slide Deck |
Recording |
|
July 27, 2023 |
eScholar PersonID
Training (request access from [email protected]) |
|
|
Security
Coordinators User Management |
|
|
eScholar DirectMatch Training Slide and
Recordings
|
||
|
Date |
Slide Deck |
Recording |
|
August 20,
2021 |
eScholar
DirectMatch Training (request access from [email protected]) |
|
|
Security
Coordinators User Management |
||
|
Data Managers |
|
|
eScholar StaffID Training Slide and Recordings
|
||
|
Date |
Slide Deck |
Recording |
|
August 20,
2020 |
eScholar
StaffID Training (request access from [email protected]) |
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