Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) Reports
The AEIS reports pull together a wide range of information on the performance of students in each school and district in Texas every year. Indicators include TAAS performance, attendance rates, dropout rates, completion rates, and SAT/ACT test results.

Actual Financial Data - Multi-year Table
This table provides financial statistics of actual expenditures for all funds incurred for 2000-01 thru 2004-05. The information contained on this table is the statewide total expenditures, total operating expenditures, total expenditures per pupil and total operating expenditures per pupil. The actual financial report that is found on the Standard Reports page has more financial information along with individual district-level data.

askTED (Texas Education Directory)
The Texas School Directory provided state-wide information on the location of schools, the administrative personnel employed, and various statistical data about each school district.

Best Practices Clearinghouse
As established by House Bill 1, 79th Legislature (3rd Called session), TEA shall solicit and collect best practices from the Legislative Budget Board, centers for education research, and exemplary or recognized school districts, campuses, and charter schools.

Charter Schools
A large volume of information about every aspect of Charter Schools.

College for Texans
Everything a Texan needs to know about preparing for, applying for, and paying for college or technical school.

Disciplinary Action Web Reporting System
The Disciplinary Data Products comprise reports and downloadable files containing disciplinary information at the state, region and district levels. This information is extracted or calculated from the PEIMS database. It is presented in Annual Summary Reports, and in Student and Incident Counts. The Annual Summary Reports contain information concerning the disciplinary actions taken by school districts and the reasons for those actions. As well, the Student and Incident Counts include reports and files containing student counts and incidents counts for disciplinary actions and disciplinary reasons.

Division of Accountability Research
The Division of Accountability Research publishes annual reports on secondary school completion and dropouts, grade-level retention, college entrance examinations (SAT and ACT), and Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate examinations, and a biennial report on enrollment trends. The division also publishes the Comprehensive Annual Report to the legislature on Texas public schools. In addition, the division is responsible for governance of data submissions to the Texas Education Agency.

Dropout Report
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on dropouts in Texas public schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate used in the accountability system, along with state attrition rates. It also includes a series of longitudinal secondary school completion/student status rates.

InVEST (Vendor Evaluation & Selection Tool)
An Internet application designed to provide districts with a manageable way to research different software vendors and their products so that they can easily find software that best meets their needs.

LONESTAR Website
The new LONESTAR website provides fast, easy access to Texas education data. LONESTAR displays data using charts and graphs at the state, region, and school district levels for the five most recent years. Reports include student enrollment, high school graduation, accountability ratings, Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) ratings, and listings of school districts within legislative districts. New reports on High School Completion and Dropouts are coming soon and more are planned.

Maps (School District Locator)
A wide range of contact and location information for school district staff, board members, education service centers, and schools.

Performance Reporting Division
Performance Reporting produces the Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) reports, which pull together a wide range of information on the performance of students in each school and district in Texas every year. These reports also provide extensive information on staff, finances, programs, and demographics for each school and district. The information contained in the AEIS is used to develop and implement the accountability system used to rate Texas public schools and school districts. The Division also publishes Snapshot, Pocket Edition, and the School Report Cards.

Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS)
PEIMS encompasses all data requested and received by TEA about public education, including student demographic and academic performance, personnel, financial, and organizational information. PEIMS contains only the data necessary for the legislature and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to perform their legally authorized functions in overseeing public education. It does not contain any information relating to instructional method, except as required by federal law.

Research and Evaluation Division (now Division of Accountability Research)

Standard Reports and Core Products
"Standard Reports" are created using the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) data collected from Texas public school districts and charter schools. These reports include information about students and staff data at the state, region, county and district level for multiple years. Campus enrollment reports are also available. Student data reports include enrollment, graduate, and economically disadvantaged counts of students. Staff data reports provide information on superintendent salaries as well as full-time equivalent (FTE) and salary reports for all professional and para-professional district staff.

"Core Products" are likewise based upon data in the PEIMS data base and provide information at the state, region, county and district level. This information covers graduates, students, and staff. It also includes information on legislative districts with respect to districts and campuses.

Student Assessment Division
The Student Assessment Division manages and oversees the development, administration, scoring and analysis of the statewide assessment program. The statewide assessment program includes the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), including TAKS (Accommodated), TAKS-Modified (TAKS-M), TAKS-Alternate (TAKS-Alt), the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS), and the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

Texas PK-16 Public Education Information Resource
This website is an integrated Texas public education student and educator Pre-Kindergarten through College resource. The website is a collaborative effort of the Texas Education Agency, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and the State Board for Educator Certification.

Texas Education Research Centers (ERCs)
The Education Research Centers or ERCs were created in 2007 to conduct research for the benefit of education in Texas. A Joint Advisory Board oversees the operations of the ERCs and is responsible for reviewing and approving research conducted by the ERCs. Each ERC has access to a copy of the ERC data warehouse that contains a wealth of data from the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

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This page last updated December 3, 2008