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The Public Education
Information Management System (PEIMS) encompasses all data requested and
received by TEA about public education, including student demographic and
academic performance, personnel, financial, and organizational information.
The data collected through the PEIMS electronic collection method
has:
- A standard set of definitions, codes, formats, procedures, and
dates for the collection of data published as the PEIMS Data Standards;
- Standard edit procedures;
- An established database design;
- A production system to format and load data into the TEA enterprise
database; and
- Written documentation describing the numeric and
alphanumeric values stored in the database published as the Data
Documentation.
For the PEIMS electronic collection, school
districts submit their data via standardized computer files, as defined by the
PEIMS Data Standards.
Technical support for gathering the data from
district databases is supplied by one of the twenty educational service
centers (ESCs) or by private vendors. A software system of standard edits, to
enhance the quality of data, is used by ESCs and again by the agency on
district data submissions. Currently, the major categories of data collected
are:
- organizational,
- budget,
- actual financial,
- staff,
- student demographic,
- program participation,
- school leaver,
- student attendance,
- course completion,
and
- discipline.
TEA manages other collections for
evaluation, monitoring, funding, or auditing. Many are automated, electronic
collections.
In compliance with the Texas Education Code, PEIMS contains
only the data necessary for the legislature and TEA to perform their legally
authorized functions in overseeing public education.