The Public Education Information Management System encompasses all data requested and received by TEA about public education, including student demographic and academic performance, personnel, financial, and organizational information.

• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children 

• Retention Schedule for Records

• Student Attendance Accounting Handbook 

• Texas Education Agency

• TREx Tutorials

• TSDS PEIMS

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;

• Written documentation describing the numeric and alphanumeric values stored in the

  database published as the Data Documentation.

• A production system to format and load data into the TEA enterprise database

• An established database design

• Standard edit procedures

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.

Submission Times

1. PEIMS Fall Snapshot (including student leaver) data.

2. Mid-Year (prior year financial Actual) data.

3. Summer (school year attendance, discipline, course completion) data.

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

Catagories

1. Campus Course Section

2. Education Organization

3. Student

4. Finance

5. Staff

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.