State Reporting Data Specialist

About KIPP Texas Public Schools

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 54 public charter, open‑enrollment, pre‑k‑12 schools educating nearly 32,000 students across Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more fair world.

Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join a Team and Family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in belongingness, academic success and joy. If you are passionate about joining a mission and values‑driven community who wants every child to want to run to school, the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you!

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni.

Objective: A Student Data Management Specialist is responsible for maintaining the integrity and accuracy of student records within the student information system (Skyward and On Data Suite), ensuring compliance with data security regulations, and providing data‑driven insights to support decision‑making within KIPP Texas Public School District. The Data Specialist provides support to the Senior and Regional Director of Attendance and PEIMS in the areas of Federal and State Reporting.

These responsibilities include:

• Troubleshoot and address any technical issues related to data management within the Student Information System.
• Collaborate with program managers, educators, and other stakeholders to gather input and insights for data collection strategies.
• Communicate findings and insights to the program team, highlighting areas of success and improvement.
• Retrieve data from the student information system to generate a variety of required reports and develop statistical information.
• Gather data from the student information system for others who perform assessments, audits, and statistical tests of levels of service, academic outcomes, student demographics, and other relevant information.
• Research and analyze a variety of student data, such as but not limited to, curriculum and student information, academic achievement, and special program reviews.
• Lead all state reporting collections, including ECDS, Charter School Waitlist, SELA, SPPI-14, Child Find, Class Roster, and RFT.
• Receives data from departments and school districts; inputs and codes data into assigned systems; extracts data as needed; prepares and maintains a variety of records and files related to work; assists in providing information and data for reports, including mandated reports.
• Verifies data accuracy within the student information system, including attendance, testing, conferences, special services, grades, and student outcome data. Prepares standardized and custom reports of student information.
• Reviews, audits, and verifies the accuracy of work for completeness and compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and procedures.
• Prepares, assembles, and distributes a variety of information and reports to teachers, resource specialists, and others connected with student services. Compiles data and generates reports for special education, District, and State agencies.
• Attends and participate in assigned meetings, in‑services, and Region 4, TEA training; assists with developing and delivering training and instructional materials to staff, as needed.

• Assist and support the Director of Attendance and PEIMS with system configuration and State Reporting Updates.
• Assist and Support the Director of Attendance and PEIMS with SIS Trainings.
• Ongoing monitoring of SIS/TSDS…