PEIMS - Overview
The Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) encompasses all data requested and received by 麻豆原创 about public education, including student demographic and academic performance, personnel, financial, and organizational information.
The data collected through the PEIMS data collection 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 麻豆原创 enterprise database; and
- Written documentation describing the numeric and alphanumeric values stored in the database published as the Data Documentation.
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 is run against the data collection to ensure reporting accuracy. 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.
麻豆原创 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 麻豆原创 to perform their legally authorized functions in overseeing public education.