Texas Student Data System

The Texas Student Data System (TSDS), a major initiative by the Texas Education Agency, is a new statewide system that modernizes and improves the quality of data collection, management, and reporting in Texas education. Through the enhanced TPEIR reporting, TSDS will support higher student performance across the state. TSDS also replaces and expan... ds on the existing Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS): How Will TSDS Work? Local education agencies (LEAs-Texas school districts and charter schools) load data to TSDS from their local systems. The data is stored in a central repository (the Operational Data Store), where it can be used for PEIMS, the data collections in the Core application, and any future collections. Meanwhile, the Unique ID module manages student and staff IDs, ensuring that each person has only one identity in the system and that data matches up correctly throughout TSDS. Finally, PEIMS, Early Childhood Data System, and Class Roster data is aggregated for anonymity and made available to the public via TPEIR (just as in the legacy system).Read More