PEIMS encompasses all data requested and received by TEA about public education, including student demographic and academic performance, personnel, financial, and organizational information.*  PEIMS is classified into two broad categories:

1. Data collected through the PEIMS electronic collection method, utilizing:

   1. A standard set of definitions, codes, formats, procedures and dates for the collection of data (Data Standards),

   2. Standard edit procedures,

   3. An established database design,

   4. A production system for formatting and loading data into TEA’s enterprise database, and

   5. Written documentation describing the numeric and alphanumeric values stored in the database (Data Documentation).

2. Any other collections, calculations, and analyses of data used for evaluating, monitoring, or auditing public education (such as state assessment, federal funding, and Foundation School Program data).