Free PLAAFP Starter Worksheet
A free printable PLAAFP starter worksheet that sorts what you know about a student by domain into strengths, needs, and a short baseline summary. It is a working draft to bring to the IEP team, not a finished present levels statement, and it exports to a fillable PDF or Excel.
- Present Levels (PLAAFP) Starter
- Free printable PDF
- Fillable in browser
This PLAAFP template is a present levels starter, not a finished statement. It gives you a simple grid to organize what you already know about a student by domain, sorting strengths, needs, and a short baseline summary into columns you can fill from your own data. The result is a working draft to bring to the IEP team, not a narrative that the tool writes for you.
Work one domain per row, such as academics, communication, social-emotional skills, or daily living. Pull the strengths and needs from things you have actually seen and recorded, and keep the baseline summary tied to real numbers from your data sheets. Vague entries here become vague present levels later, so specifics gathered over time are what make the draft useful.
Bring the filled grid to the meeting as raw material, where the team turns it into the present levels statement that goes in the IEP. Think of it as the toolkit that gathers the pieces, not the final language. The team still writes, discusses, and agrees on the wording, and this page just makes sure nothing gets left out of that conversation.
When to use it
Use this before an IEP meeting when you need to pull scattered notes and scores into one organized draft. It helps case managers and teachers arrive with a domain-by-domain summary the team can shape into the present levels statement together.
Customization tips
- List the domains your district's IEP uses down the rows so the draft maps onto the form you will complete.
- Keep the baseline summary tied to logged data, such as a baseline or progress monitoring sheet, rather than estimates.
- Fill it in the fillable PDF when you would rather type, then bring a printed copy for the team to mark up.
- Export to Excel to reuse the same domain rows for the next student or the following year.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a PLAAFP?
- PLAAFP stands for present levels of academic achievement and functional performance. It is the part of the IEP that describes where a student is now across the relevant domains. Everything else in the IEP, including the goals, builds from it.
- Does this template write my present levels for me?
- No. It is a starter worksheet that organizes strengths, needs, and baseline by domain into a draft. The IEP team still writes and agrees on the final present levels statement, using the grid as raw material.
- What should I put in the baseline summary column?
- A short, factual summary drawn from data you have collected, such as a baseline or progress monitoring sheet. Keeping it tied to real numbers means the present levels the team writes can be defended later.
- Which domains should I include?
- Use the domains your district's IEP form lists, which often cover academics, communication, social-emotional skills, and daily living. Matching the rows to your form makes it easy to transfer the draft into the official document.
- Can I fill it in on a computer?
- Yes. The fillable PDF gives a type-in field for every cell, and the Excel export keeps your rows reusable. The printable version is handy for marking up with the team, and all three share the same layout.