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Chapter 1: What Is SIRS?The New York State Student Information Repository System (SIRS) provides a single source of standardized individual student records for analysis at the local, regional, and State levels to improve student performance and to meet State and federal reporting and accountability requirements. Data in the Repository are available only to users with a legitimate educational interest. Local Education Agencies (LEAs) must use this system to report certain data to the New York State Education Department (NYSED). LEAs are administrative bodies governing over a school setting, and include public school districts, charter schools, nonpublic schools, BOCES, the New York State School for the Deaf and New York State School for the Blind. Certain State agencies (e.g., OCFS, DOC, OPWDD, OMH) and approved private schools that provide educational services to court placed students pursuant to Article 81 may also serve as an LEA and must report data using the SIRS. Nonpublic schools who participate in State assessments in elementary/middle-level ELA, mathematics, science, or secondary-level Regents exams must report these data using the SIRS. The New York State Student Identification System (NYSSIS) is a key element of the SIRS. NYSED developed this system to assign a stable, unique student identifier to every student reported to SIRS. These students include all preschool students referred to the CPSE for determination of eligibility for preschool special education, to every prekindergarten through grade 12 public school student, to every participant in an approved GED program in New York State, and to every nonpublic school student whose assessment data are reported through SIRS. Unique identifiers enhance student data reporting, improve data quality, and ensure that students can be tracked longitudinally as they transfer between LEAs. In the SIRS, each student record is uniquely identified with a 10-digit NYSSIS number assigned when the student first enters a State public school, public agency, child-care institution that operates a school, or participating nonpublic school. SIRS LevelsThere are multiple data collection points within SIRS. Most LEAs have local School Management Systems (SMSs) in which they collect student demographic, school enrollment, programs, assessment performance, and other data. Most LEAs also have finance or Human Resource (HR) systems that contain staff data. LEAs with local systems generate extracts in standardized template formats to load data into SIRS. These data extracts may be loaded into “Level 0” or directly into “Level 1” of SIRS. LEAs without local SMSs can manually enter data directly into Level 0. Level 0 is a Web-based application hosted by the Regional Information Centers (RICS): South Central (SCRIC), Central New York (CNYRIC), Eastern Suffolk (includes Syracuse), Lower Hudson (LHRIC), MidHudson (MHRIC), Mohawk/Madison-Oneida (MORIC), Nassau, Northeastern (NERIC), Greater Southern Tier (GST), Wayne Finger Lakes (Edutech), Monroe, Western New York (WNYRIC) (Buffalo and Rochester). It provides LEAs with the ability to enter (or load) and validate data against New York State (NYS) data collection formatting and business rules. Level 0 may also be used to collect additional data that may not be available in electronic form, such as teacher evaluation data. Validated data is exported from Level 0 in a format that can be loaded directly into the Level 1 repository. Level 0 Historical is an application available at https://l0historical.nyseddata.org/ that provides the sole process for updating individual student and Staff Evaluation historical data that currently resides in the data warehouse. Historical records are defined as any data warehouse record submitted prior to the current school year. The data areas currently available for view and/or update are Student (Demographic, Enrollment, Programs Fact, and Assessment Fact) and Staff Evaluation. Once authenticated as a valid user, authorized users can access SIRS school district information using district name, school year, and either local student ID or state TEACH ID as identifiers. Historical information will be displayed for the identified student and may be updated according to the Level 0 business rules that exist for each school year. Help screens are available within the application or users can contact their local Level 1 data center for additional assistance. Level 1 is a series of regional repositories hosted by many of the local data centers: South Central RIC, Central New York RIC, Eastern Suffolk RIC (includes Syracuse), Lower Hudson RIC, MidHudson RIC, Mohawk/Madison-Oneida (MORIC), Nassau RIC, Northeastern RIC, New York City, Western New York RIC (includes Buffalo, Greater Southern Tier RIC, Monroe RIC, Rochester, and Wayne Finger Lakes RIC), and Yonkers. Level 1 repositories include, at a minimum, all the data elements defined in “Chapter 4: Data Elements” for State reporting requirements. Users of the Level 1 repositories may also include additional data elements to meet local or regional needs, including data collected for local data analysis and reporting or pre-printing scannable assessment answer sheets. The demographic data elements are also used to match to existing or create new NYSSIS IDs. Data are loaded into Level 1 repositories using data templates and load plans provided by eScholar®, which define not only student demographic, enrollment, program, and assessment data that are stored in SIRS, but also course, attendance, staff, and teacher evaluation data as SIRS continues to expand. All entities that report data to SIRS (school districts, charter schools, State agencies that operate educational programs, nonpublic schools that administer State assessments, BOCES, and child-care institutions that operate a school) must participate in a Level 1 repository. Any LEA that is not a Level 1 data center must contract with a Level 1 data center to report data to SIRS. These repositories are used to prepare data for submission to the Level 2 repository. Data in the Level 1 Repository are available only to users with a legitimate educational interest. The Level 2 repository is a single statewide data warehouse, where all required student data from Level 1 are combined. Level 2 also uses the eScholar® data warehouse system. This level holds records for all students, teachers, and non-teaching professionals. In the Level 2 Repository, each student record is uniquely identified with a 10-digit NYSSIS number. Currently, Level 2 provides data for many purposes including, but not limited to, developing The New York State School Report Card; determining the accountability status of public and charter schools and districts; reporting Institutional Master File (IMF) and Personnel Master File (PMF) data (see http://www.p12.nysed.gov/irs/data_collection.html); accessing data on the EngageNY Portal; determining teacher and principal accountability; linking student data with those of teachers and principals; meeting federal reporting requirements; informing policy decisions; and meeting other State needs for individual student data. Personally identifiable data in the Level 2 repository are available only to users with a legitimate educational interest. SIRS data are available to authorized users in: 1) the Level 2 reporting (L2RPT) environment, a statewide Web-based data reporting service hosted regionally at Level 1 data centers, which provides LEAs and other personnel with reports using data in the Level 2 Repository; 2) the PD (Pupils with Disabilities) System, a NYSED-hosted series of online reports on special-education assessments and performance metrics, with timelines and details of services provided; and 3) the UIAS (Unique Identifier Audit System) reports, which focus on data quality by notifying LEAs about potential errors in select reporting rules, based on the current state of NYSSIS IDs in Level 2 enrollment records.
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