Texas Student Data System (TSDS)
The Texas Student Data System (TSDS), a major initiative by the Texas Education Agency, is a statewide system that modernizes and improves the quality of data collection, management, and reporting in Texas education
- TSDS modernizes the PEIMS data collection process to reduce technology risk and system downtime allowing for more system availability and ease of use.
- It puts real-time student performance data in the hands of educators to improve student achievement.
- TSDS will become the one common data collection platform for TEA to reduce the data collection burden on districts and charter schools.
The links on this page will take you to the texasstudentdatasystem.org website, which provide information on key systems and concepts in TSDS:
Education Data Warehouse – a district-facing database the allows LEAs to store data in a central place and use it for multiple reporting purposes
Training – a tiered system that provides first-line training to the ESCs
Technical Resources – more detailed and technical information on TSDS
TSDS Data Collection Documentation - technical user guides for the TSDS Data Collection
Texas Education Data Standards (TEDS) – a collection of data standards for loading data to the EDW on its way to TSDS PEIMS and other TSDS data collections
TPEIR Public Reports – a publicly accessible, aggregated, FERPA-compliant longitudinal data warehouse that links students from pre-K through enrollment and graduation from Texas colleges (P-20)
TSDS PEIMS – the software application for the state's Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) that allows LEAs to load, validate, and submit their mandatory reporting data
TSDS Core - the software application that houses all other TEA data collections in TSDS, such as the Early Childhood Data System (ECDS)
Unique ID – an identity management system that creates randomly generated unique identifiers to support all the subsystems of TSDS and to provide cleaner longitudinal education data