KIDS Overview
In an effort to meet the reporting requirements of the Federal No Child Left Behind legislation the Kansas State Department of Education has implemented a student-level record system, known as Kansas Individual Data on Students, or KIDS.
The KIDS system maintains student confidentiality while allowing for more accurate data available in multiple formats in a more timely manner than was possible in the past. Implementing this system has required a fundamental change in how schools collect and disseminate data. This web page is offered as an avenue for sharing current information of the KIDS project, as well as for collecting feedback and suggestions for improvement. Please refer to this site often and send your comments and questions to the contacts you will find listed here.
The KIDS System assigns a unique randomly generated state identification number for every student attending accredited public or private schools in the state. This ID number will follow the student throughout his/her preK-12 education in Kansas public schools. The goals of KIDS are to reduce data burden on local schools and districts; encourage better policy-making by maintaining a cost effective and reliable method of reporting and accessing accurate and timely educational information among agencies and educational communities; and eliminate the need for manual operations before data can be used. Through the use of the state identifier, KIDS will provide more accurate data, reduce the time needed for data collection, and allow quicker responses to data requests.
The KIDS project includes two different systems:
- The Assignment System is based on a vendor software package. The software is used to collect a set of core data elements for every student in Kansas accredited preK-12 schools; assign a unique randomly generated state number to each of these students; and track the students as he/she moves between Kansas public schools.
- The Collection System was developed by KSDE to work in conjunction with the Assignment System. The Collection System collects additional data elements on every student in Kansas. This additional data is used for district funding, student assessments, school accountability, and state and federal reporting requirements such as enrollment, graduation, attendance, and truancy information.