Person Information
The KEDS Person and Student domains form the foundation of nearly every operational and analytical workflow in an Ed-Fi implementation.
These domains support:
- enrollment
- demographics
- attendance
- assessment
- special programs
- accountability reporting
- longitudinal student tracking
In practice:
- The Person domain defines identity and demographic structures.
- The Student domain defines educational participation and student-specific records
Conceptual Architecture
A useful mental model is:
Person
└── Student
├── Enrollment
├── School Associations
├── Program Participation
├── Attendance
├── Grades
├── Assessments
Core Identity Philosophy in Ed-Fi
Ed-Fi strongly separates:
- identity
- educational participation
This separation allows:
- longitudinal tracking
- multi-school enrollment
- district transfers
- state interoperability
- deduplication
Student – Guidance
This entity represents an individual for whom instruction, services, and/or care are provided in an early childhood, elementary, or secondary educational program under the jurisdiction of a school, education agency or other institution or program. A student is a person who has been enrolled in a school or other educational institution
It represents:
- demographic information
- identifiers
- birth data
- citizenship
- language information
- student characteristics