PIMS is Pennsylvania’s Department of Education (PDE) implementation of a statewide system to collect state and federal education statistics. The goal of PIMS is to enhance a school district’s capabilities to meet student-level data reporting requirements and provide robust decision support tools.
Sapphire’s Support for PIMS
- Provide PIMS specific solutions embedded into the Sapphire Student Information System allowing users to maintain PIMS data fields as part of the product
- Provide properly formatted files for direct submission to the PIMS system
- Provide specific documentation, training and support to ensure data completeness
- Attend PIMS meetings to stay abreast of any data, deadline, or process changes that can occur during and after the deployment of the PIMS system
- Support the school district during the submission windows to help isolate, identify and assist with understanding how to resolve PIMS related data issues
- Continue providing and supporting new PIMS requirements as PDE continues to make changes to the PIMS system. K12 Systems is a Voluntary Vendor for PIMS Project
Student, Enrollment and Programs Domains
- Student
- Student Snapshot
- School Enrollment
- Student Programs
- Program Fact
Child Accounting (CAD) Domain
- School Calendar
- Student Calendar Fact
Course and Grade Domain
- Course
- Course Instructor
- Course Enrollment
Career and Technical Education (CTE) Domain
- CTE Student Fact
- CTE Student Industry Credentials
Staff Domain
District Domain
- District Fact
- District Year (Snapshot)
Discipline and Location Domain
- Incident
- Person
- Incident Offender
- Incident Offender Infraction
- Incident Offender Disciplinary Action
- Incident Offender Parent Involve
- Incident Victim
- Location Fact
- Location Truancy
Special Education
- Special Education Snapshot
- Special Education Services Fact
- Special Education Events