Student Identification and Demographics - UDM v3.0

The Student Identification and Demographics domain represents the core information about students and parents.

Key Entities

This domain contains:

The Student entity, which captures important information and characteristics of a student.
The StudentEducationOrganizationAssociation, which captures additional information and characteristics of a student that are specific to a student's relationship with a particular education organization.
The Parent entity, which spans all variants of a parent or guardian.
The StudentParentAssociation entity, which links students and parents and defines the relationship.

The key concepts include the following:

Parents as well as guardians are stored within the Parent entity in the Ed-Fi data model. The Parent entity can also represent other important contacts that have been approved by the parent or guardian for contact in cases of emergency or even pick-up from school.
The Parent entity is kept as a separate entity that is related to a Student entity through an Association entity. This contrasts other systems that merely track parents as elements of student records. This allows contact information to be more easily kept up to date for parents with multiple students.
If extending the Parent entity, be careful to keep any information dealing with the relationship on the StudentParentAssociation entity record.
The ProgramParticipation entity information provided as part of the Student entity is highly rudimentary, and anyone wanting to capture anything beyond a basic program list would be best served to use the StudentProgramAssociation entity instead.

This section contains reference information for the Student Identification and Demographics domain model.

Name	Description
Parent	This entity represents a parent or guardian of a student, such as mother, father, or caretaker.
Student	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.
StudentEducationOrganizationAssociation	This association represents student information that is specific to a student's relationship with an EducationOrganization. Often, these student properties are the result of evaluations administered by Local Education Agencies and therefore may have different values if the student is enrolled at more than one Local Education Agency.
StudentParentAssociation	This association relates students to their parents, guardians, or caretakers.

Student Identification and Demographics Model