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Ed-Fi Categories and Resources

 

Category

Description

Resource

Descriptor

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.

Descriptor

Organization Info

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.

ClassPeriods

Organization Calendars

The Organization Calendars category represents information about sessions, grading periods, and calendars.

Calendar Dates

Calendar

Student Demographics

This category defines students and contains their reportable information.

Students

Student Enrollments


The Student Enrollment category describes student enrollments in schools.

Student School

Student DOR

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 Special Education Programs

Student Title I Part A Programs

Student Career Education Programs

Student Language Instruction Program

studentNeglectedOrDelinquentProgramAssociations

Homeless Programs

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

Students Discipline 

Discipline Action

Student Attendance


The Student Attendance category describes student attendance and attendance taken events. It can be used to exchange daily, section, intervention, or program attendance events.

Daily Attendance

Section Attendance

Student Transcripts




The Student Transcripts category carries student academic records and transcript data.

Academic Records

Transcript Courses

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.

Assessments

Student Assessments

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