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Enrollment - UDM v3.1

Owned by Ian Christopher (Deactivated)
Jan 09, 2019

The Enrollment domain model supports cases in which a student is limited to enrollment in only one school at a time as well as cases in which a state may have policies supporting multiple school enrollments. The semantics assume that a student is withdrawn in the previous grade level and enrolled in the next grade level when promoted.

Key Entities

This domain contains:

  • The StudentSchoolAssociation entity, which represents students’ enrollments in schools.

  • A separate StudentSchoolAssociation entity for each grade level for each student.

Key Concepts

The key concepts include the following:

  • During enrollment at a school, a student may have associations (e.g., accountability, funding, etc.) with other education organizations at any institutional level.

  • Some student characteristics may be specific to a student's relationship with a particular education organization. Often, this data is a 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.

  • A few elements that some external systems may model as directly related to a Student entity (e.g., a child's school year) are placed instead on the StudentSchoolAssociation entity (which signifies enrollment).

  • For associations between a student and a school or local education agency that is not enrollment (e.g., school of accountability), the StudentEducationOrganizationAssociation entity is defined. 

Model Reference

This section contains reference information for the Enrollment domain model. 

Enrollment Model Entities

NameDescription
AccountabilityRatingAn accountability rating for a school or district.
EducationOrganizationThis entity represents any public or private institution, organization, or agency that provides instructional or support services to students or staff at any level.
GraduationPlan

This entity is a plan outlining the required credits, credits by subject,credits by course, and other criteria required for graduation. A graduation plan may be one or more standard plans defined by an education organization and/or individual plans for some or all students.

LocalEducationAgencyThis entity represents an administrative unit at the local level which exists primarily to operate schools or to contract for educational services. It includes school districts, charter schools, charter management organizations, or other local administrative organizations.
SchoolThis entity represents an educational organization that includes staff and students who participate in classes and educational activity groups.
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.

StudentEducationOrganizationAssociationThis association represents student information that is specific to a student's relationship with an EducationOrganization.
StudentEducationOrganizationResponsibilityAssociationThis association indicates any relationship between a student and an education organization other than how the state views enrollment. Enrollment relationship semantics are covered by StudentSchoolAssociation.
StudentSchoolAssociationThis association represents the School in which a student is enrolled. The semantics of enrollment may differ slightly by state. Non-enrollment relationships between a student and an education organization may be described using the StudentEducationOrganizationAssociation.

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