Data Holdings

Over 1.5 billion data observations, dating back to 1990, are available through the UT Dallas Education Research Center. Sources for these data are the Texas Education Agency, State Board of Educator Certification, Financial Aid Database, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Workforce Commission, and National Student Clearinghouse.

The lists of variables across all the years and a printable version of data holding excel file can be accessed on our Documentation page.

Information on how to obtain access to the data repository can be found on our Conducting Research page.

Education Research Center data holdings include:

Texas Education Agency (TEA)

• New Data Provision (See Data Holding List on the Data Documentation Page for details):
  • Post-Secondary Industry Certification Data
  • ECDS (Early Childhood Data System)
  • Foundation High School Program
  • Teacher Age
• Financial – Actual
• Financial – Budget
• Financial – Nonprofit, Actual
• Financial – Nonprofit, Budget
• Organization – Campus
• Organization – District
• Organization – Course Section
• Student – Attendance
• Student – Class Enroll
• Student – Course Completion
• Student – Demographic Graduate
• Student – Dropout
• Student – Enrollment
• Student – Graduate
• Student – Leaver (other exit)
• Student – Leaver Reason (other exit)
• Student – Special Education
• Student – Discipline
• Staff – Employee
• Staff – Employee Demographic
• Staff – Teacher Class Assignment
• Staff – Class
• Staff – Nonclass
• Staff – Teacher Age
• Student-teacher link data: Class Roster data
• SBEC, Certification
• SBEC, Test
• TEA Testing Data – TAAS
• TEA Testing Data – TAKS
• TEA Testing Data – STAAR
• TEA Testing Data – TELPAS

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)

• New Data Provision (See the THECB manuals on the Data Documentation Page for details.)
  • CBM 0C1 – Student Census Report (this report started to be provided since spring of 2022 as a replacement of CBM001 )
    • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges
    • 4 YR Public Universities
  • CBM 0C8 – Census Faculty Report
    • 4 YR Public Universities
  • CBM 0CS – Census Student Schedule Report
    • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges
    • 4 YR Public Universities
  • CBM 00T – Transfer Report
    • 4 YR Public Universities
• CBM Report 1 – Student Enrollment (this report was discontinued since spring of 2022. CBM01C was provided as a replacement)
  • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges
  • Health Related
  • Independent
  • 4 YR Public Universities

• CBM Report 2 – TASP/TSI (THECB Testing Data)
  • TASP
  • TSI

• CBM Report 4 – Class (this report was discontinued since spring of 2022)
  • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges
  • 4 YR Public Universities

• CBM Report 8 – Faculty
  • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges
  • Health Related
  • 4 YR Public Universities

• CBM Report 9 – Graduates/Degrees Awarded
  • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges
  • Health Related
  • Independent
  • 4 YR Public Universities

• CBM Report 11 – Facilities, Room
  • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges
  • 4 YR Public Universities
  • Health Related

• CBM Report 14 – Facilities, Building
  • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges
  • 4 YR Public Universities
  • Health Related

• CBM Report A – Students in Continuing Education
  • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges

• CBM Report B – Admissions
  • 4 YR Public Universities

• CBM Report C – Continuing Education Class
  • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges

• CBM Report M – Marketable Skills Achievement Report
  • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges

• CBM Report R – Resident/Fellows
  • Health Related

• CBM Report S – Student Schedule Report
  • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges
  • 4 YR Public Universities

• CBM Report 0E1 – Student End of Semester Report
  • 2 YR Community & Technical Colleges
  • 4 YR Public Universities

• CBM Career Schools Report 1 – Student Report
  • Career Schools and Colleges and Private and Out-of-State Public Postsecondary Institutions

• CBM Career Schools Report 9 – Graduation Report
  • Career Schools and Colleges and Private and Out-of-State Public Postsecondary Institutions

• Financial Aid

Texas Workforce Commission (TWC)

• Quarterly Wages

National Student Clearinghouse (NSC)

• New Data Provision (See the NSC Variables List on the Data Documentation Page for details.)
  • A new version of NSC data are available in which includes all high school graduates who graduated from public high schools in Texas from 2014-15 through 2021-22 school year and who enrolled in either out-of-state IHEs or Texas public/private IHEs in fall semester of the following academic year after graduating from a high school.
• TEA Texas High School Graduates and their NSC Schools
• Students on THECB CBM001 and the NSC record of out-of-state colleges the student attended

Non-Confidential, Public Use Data

TEA – Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS)

• Campus (1994-2012)
• District (1994-2012)

TEA – Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR)

• Campus (2013-2019)
• District (2013-2019)

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

• Common Core of Data (1990-2011)

*Years are fiscal/academic

For questions, contact Mark Lu, data manager.