PEIMS

The data that is reported to the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) is used to analyze Texas public education data through data reports, evaluations, Texas Academic Performance Reports/Accountability ratings, and funding calculations.

PEIMS data consists of five categories: Education Organization, Finance, Staff, Student, and Campus Course Section.

Local education agencies (LEAs) and Education Service Centers (ESCs) will transmit their PEIMS data collection to the Education Data Warehouse (EDW) using one or more Interchange Schemas drawn from the Ed-Fi Core and Texas Core Extension Schemas. These interchange schemas are mandatory for data submission for each local education agency (LEA) and Education Service Centers (ESCs) when submitting PEIMS data to the Texas Education Agency (TEA).

Data extracted from a LEAs student information system (SIS), whether automated or not, must be formatted to reflect the specified interchange schema for each PEIMS submission. Every LEA and ESC in the state will use the same data structures to submit data, regardless of the degree of sophistication of its SIS and/or data processing facility.

The PEIMS data files will be processed through the TSDS Data Validation Tool in the TSDS PEIMS Data Mart. All fatal errors that are identified must be corrected before the TEA will accept a LEA or ESC’s PEIMS data. Special warning and warning edits must be reviewed for data accuracy by the appropriate LEA and ESC staff before the data is approved by the same.

PEIMS data is collected four times each school year. The collections are:

• Submission 1 - PEIMS Fall Snapshot (including student leaver) data,

• Submission 2 - Mid-Year (prior year financial Actual) data,

• Submission 3 - Summer (school year attendance, discipline, course completion) data, and

• Submission 4 - Extended Year (summer program) data, when applicable to the LEA.

Access to TSDS PEIMS

The TSDS system is only available to authorized LEA, campus, and ESC staff. A TEA issued logon is required to access the system.