Ed-Fi Categories and Resources
Category | Description | Resource |
The Descriptor category is used to describe metadata about the descriptors and their structure. Descriptors define enumeration vocabularies that are not fixed within the Ed-Fi schema, and vary according to the specific state implementation. | ||
The Education Organization category describes education organizations, their structure, and their education offerings. It is used to exchange education organization information about a state's schools, local education agencies (LEAs), education service centers (ESCs), and others. In addition, the category supports the definition of the education offerings provided by schools, specifically the available courses and alternative/supplemental programs offered. Courses in this context refer to "course catalog" information. As such, this category may define current as well as past courses. | ||
Education Organization Calendar
| The Education Organization Calendar category carries school calendar information. It can be used to exchange school calendar data, including instructional days, sessions, and grading periods. | |
| The Master Schedule category loads education course offerings and their schedule. The category can be used to exchange data regarding the course offerings, sections, and bell schedule for a school. | |
This category defines students and contains their reportable information. | ||
| The Student Enrollment category describes student enrollments in schools. | |
Contacts | The Parent category defines parents and captures the familial relationship between the student and the parent as well as indicators for the parent for residence, primary parental contact, and emergency contact. | Parents |
StudentParentAssociations | ||
The Staff Demographics category contains staff demographic data including names, date of birth, ethnicity, telephone, home and email address. | ||
| This Staff Assocation category defines staff and teacher information. It can be used to define employment, assignment, and school associations. | |
| The Student Teacher category contains teacher and student section enrollments. Both record types include a section reference consisting of: school resource ID, class period, classroom, local course code, school year, and term. Section teacher records include: section reference, staff ID, classroom position (role), begin and end dates, and percent contribution. Student enrollments include: section reference, student ID, entry and exit date and type, dual credit and concurrent enrollment values, and an optional note. | |
Student Program | The Student Program category describes students’ participation in programs. | StudentProgramAssociations |
StudentSpecialEducationProgramAssociations | ||
StudentTitleIPartAProgramAssociations | ||
StudentEarlyLearningProgramAssociations | ||
StudentAdultEducationProgramAssociations | ||
Student Discipline
| The Student Discipline category carries discipline incidents and discipline actions.
| DisciplineIncident |
StudentDisciplineIncidentAssociation | ||
| The Student Attendance category describes student attendance and attendance taken events. It can be used to exchange daily, section, intervention, or program attendance events. | |
SectionAttendanceTakenEvent | ||
The Student Grades category carries student grades. | ||
The Student Transcripts category carries student academic records and transcript data. | ||