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 Organization Setup 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. | ||
| Organization Calendars | The Organization Calendars category represents information about sessions, grading periods, and calendars. | |
This category defines students and contains their reportable information. | ||
The Student Enrollment category describes student enrollments in schools. | ||
| Student Teacher Sections | This category captures section teachers and student section enrollments, and includes the following data views and resources. | Staff Sections |
| Student Sections | ||
| Student Program | The Student Program category describes students’ participation in programs. | Student Programs |
| Student Title I Part A Programs | ||
| Student Career Education Programs | ||
| Student Language Instruction Program | ||
| Contacts | The Contacts category captures any contacts linked to the student including their defined relationship. | Student Contacts |
| Student Associations | ||
| Student Discipline | The Student Discipline category carries discipline incidents and discipline actions. | Discipline Incident |
| studentDisciplineIncidentBehaviorAssociation | ||
| Discipline Action | ||
| The Student Attendance category describes student attendance and attendance taken events. It can be used to exchange daily, section, intervention, or program attendance events. | ||
The Student Transcripts category carries student academic records and transcript data. | ||
| Transcript Courses | ||
| Student Cohort Groups | This category captures student cohorts (groups) and includes any activities and students associated with those activities. The Student Cohort Groups category includes the following data views and resources. | |
| Assessments | This category captures assessments linked to the student including the student assessments and their properties. The Assessments category includes the following data views and resources. | |
| Student Assessments |