The Texas Student Data System will provide educators and policymakers with actionable, timely data to improve student performance while easing the burden of data collection on districts.

Collectively, the TSDS components will standardize the data collection and data management process, and equip educators with historical, timely and actionable student data to drive classroom and student success.


The goals of the system are to:

  1. Enhance performance management capabilities through the creation of academic dashboards and early warning systems that will, for example, help determine which students are at risk of dropping out and recommend intervention strategies;
  2. Alleviate the data collection burden on school districts and improve data quality; and
  3. Integrate key data into the Texas Education Agency (TEA) P–20 data warehouse, the Texas P–16 Public Education Information Resource (TPEIR), to better understand students’ preparedness to contribute to the 21st-century workforce.

The system will leverage four major system components to accomplish these goals:

Full deployment of the solution will occur over the next five to six years, depending on the availability of funding and other key resources. The system is being designed to produce sustainable and positive outcomes throughout this period, based on the funding that already has been committed. As plans and expected outcomes become complete, they will be made available through this Web site.

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“The data we currently collect has helped the state monitor public schools. This new system will allow us to provide timely and meaningful information from the teacher to the taxpayer.”
– Robert Scott, Texas Commissioner of Education

TEA is overseeing the TSDS solution with support from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Double Line Partners.

Texas Education Agency

The Texas Education Agency (www.tea.state.tx.us) is the state agency that oversees prekindergarten through high school education in Texas, which educates 4.7 million students in its more than 1,200 school districts and charter schools.

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (www.msdf.org) is dedicated to improving the lives of children living in urban poverty around the world. With offices in Austin, TX; New Delhi, India; and Cape Town, South Africa, the Dell family foundation funds programs that foster high-quality public education and childhood health and improve the economic stability of families living in poverty. The foundation has committed more than $530 million to global children's issues and community initiatives to date.

Double Line Partners

Double Line Partners, LLC works with a broad range of state and local education agencies across the United States to create scorecards and dashboards to improve student performance. For the Texas Student Data System initiative, Double Line Partners is responsible for developing the data standard, dashboard design and metrics, stakeholder engagement and the dashboard prototype pilots.