Student Identity | PowerSchool SIS Compliance

This resource publishes the student's identification information.

The students that are published must NOT be excluded from state reporting.
The school must not be excluded from reporting. No students will be published from a school that is excluded from reporting.

Element Name	Submission	Definition	Code Set, if applicable	Technical Name	[Table]Field Mapping	Business Rules or Comments
Category - Identity - Name
First Name	Yes	The full legal first name given to a person at birth, baptism, or through legal change.	None	FirstName	[Students]First_Name	This is a mandatory field.
Middle Name	Yes	A full legal middle name given to a person at birth, baptism, or through legal change.	None	MiddleName	[Students]Middle_Name
Last or Surname	Yes	The full legal last name borne in common by members of a family.	None	LastOrSurname	[Students]Last_Name	This is a mandatory field.
Generation Code or Suffix	Yes	An appendage, if any, used to denote a person's generation in his family (e.g., Jr., Sr., III).	None	GenerationCodeOrSuffix	NA	NA
Category - Identity - Other Name
Other First Name	Yes	A first name given to a person.	None	OtherFirstName	NA	NA
Other Middle Name	No	A middle name given to a person.	None	OtherMiddleName	NA	NA
Other Last Name	No	A last name given to a person.	None	OtherLastName	NA	NA
Other Name Type	Yes	The types of previous, alternate, or other names for a person.	MDE Option Set Alias - Alias Nickname - Nickname	OtherNameType	NA	NA
Category - Identity - Other Identification
Other Student Identifier	Yes (Optional)	A unique number or alphanumeric code assigned to a student by a school, a school system, a state, or other agency or entity.	None	OtherStudentIdentifier	NA	NA
Other Student Identification System	Yes (Optional)	A coding scheme that is used for identification and record-keeping purposes by schools, social services, or other agencies to refer to a student.	MDE Option Set SSN - Social Security Administration number	OtherStudentIdentificationSystem	NA	NA
Personal Information Verification	Yes (Optional)	The evidence by which a person's name, address, date of birth, etc. is confirmed.	Refer to Personal Information Verification.	PersonalInformationVerification	NA	NA
Student Identifier	Yes	A unique number or alphanumeric code assigned to a student by a school, a school system, a state, or other agency or entity. The resource is updated to publish the StudentIdentifier as 9 digits. If the MSIS ID is less than 9 digits, leading zeros are added. If the MSIS ID is greater than 9 digits, the extra digits are truncated.	None	StudentIdentifier	[Students]State_Student_Number
Student Identification System	Yes	A coding scheme that is used for identification and record-keeping purposes by schools, social services, or other agencies to refer to a student.	MDE Option Set State - State-assigned number	StudentIdentificationSystem		Default to “State”.