Powerschool Demographic Information
- Felicia Mizgorski
- Tara Chiatovich
Note about why we need it.
The following fields are in the Students_export.txt file and help provide information that DEV has noted in the template for the students creation to upload it through jrich.
Field name
Notes
STUDENTS First_Name
This field is also in STAR Renaissance data.
STUDENTS Last_Name
This field is also in STAR Renaissance data.
STUDENTS Grade_Level
This field is also in STAR Renaissance data.
STUDENTS State_StudentNumber
Needed as an identifier, e.g., for linking different data sources.
STUDENTS Student_Number
Needed as an identifier, e.g., for linking different data sources.
S_NJ_STU_X specialed_classification
Important demographic information; STAR Renaissance data has demographic columns/fields, but at least in the SM.csv data, all students are marked with the same value (e.g., “U” for Gender, “No” for BlackAfricanAmerican) for all demographics, meaning that these columns provide no information at all on student demographics.
STUDENTS Gender
Important demographic information; STAR Renaissance data has demographic columns/fields, but at least in the SM.csv data, all students are marked with the same value (e.g., “U” for Gender, “No” for BlackAfricanAmerican) for all demographics, meaning that these columns provide no information at all on student demographics.
STUDENTS Ethnicity
Important demographic information; STAR Renaissance data has demographic columns/fields, but at least in the SM.csv data, all students are marked with the same value (e.g., “U” for Gender, “No” for BlackAfricanAmerican) for all demographics, meaning that these columns provide no information at all on student demographics.
STUDENTS DOB
Important background information; STAR Renaissance data has a BirthDate field, but it is marked as missing for all rows at least in the SM.csv data file.