Pennsylvania Department of Education Pennsylvania Information Management System Volume 2 USER MANUAL Ron Tomalis Secretary of Education 2012 – 2013 V 1.0.1 Pennsylvania Information Pennsylvania Management System Department of Education Table of Contents – Volume 2 – PIMS Reference Materials Appendix A – Course Codes ......................................................................................................................................3 Elementary Course Codes ......................................................................................................................................3 Departmentalized Sixth Grade Course Codes ........................................................................................................4 Dual Enrollment Course Codes ..............................................................................................................................4 Special Education Course Codes (page 1 of 3) ......................................................................................................4 ESL Course Codes (page 1 of 2) ............................................................................................................................7 Visually Impaired Course Codes (page 1 of 2) .......................................................................................................9 Hearing Impaired Course Codes (page 1 of 2) .................................................................................................... 11 Hearing Impaired Course Codes (page 2 of 2) .................................................................................................... 12 Alternative Education Course Codes ................................................................................................................... 13 Secondary Course Codes (numerical order) ....................................................................................................... 15 Appendix B – Staff Assignment Codes.................................................................................................................... 46 Chief School Administrator Assignments (alphabetical order) ............................................................................ 46 Staff Assignments (alphabetical order) ................................................................................................................ 46 Appendix C – Highest Level of Education Completed ............................................................................................. 56 Appendix D –State and County Codes .................................................................................................................... 57 Appendix E – Enrollment Codes .............................................................................................................................. 58 Course Entry and Withdrawal Codes ................................................................................................................... 58 School Entry Codes ............................................................................................................................................. 58 School Withdrawal Codes .................................................................................................................................... 59 Appendix F – Program Codes ................................................................................................................................. 60 Appendix G – Employment Eligibility Verification Codes ........................................................................................ 62 Appendix H – Disability Codes (Challenge Types) .................................................................................................. 63 Appendix I – Country Codes .................................................................................................................................... 64 Appendix J – Language Codes ............................................................................................................................... 70 Appendix K – Grade Level ....................................................................................................................................... 83 Appendix L – Student Status ................................................................................................................................... 84 Appendix M – Expected Post Graduate and Post Dropout Activity ......................................................................... 85 Expected Post Dropout Activity Codes ................................................................................................................ 85 Expected Post Graduate Activity Codes .............................................................................................................. 85 Appendix N - Reserved for Future Use .................................................................................................................. 89 Appendix O – Semester Values .............................................................................................................................. 90 Appendix P – CTE Status Type Codes ................................................................................................................... 91 Appendix Q – Industry Credential (Certification) Codes.......................................................................................... 93 Appendix R – Calendar Program Codes ............................................................................................................... 102 Appendix S – Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act .................................................................................... 104 Appendix T – Residency ........................................................................................................................................ 107 Appendix U – LRE Category / Location of Intervention ......................................................................................... 108 Appendix V – Reason for Exiting Special Education ............................................................................................. 109 Appendix W – Template is Deleted ....................................................................................................................... 110 Appendix X – Officer Definitions ............................................................................................................................ 111 Appendix Y – Incident Place Codes ...................................................................................................................... 112 Appendix Z – Infraction Codes .............................................................................................................................. 113 Definitions .......................................................................................................................................................... 115 Appendix AA – Categories to use in the Location Fact Template ......................................................................... 129 Habitual Truancy ................................................................................................................................................ 129 Indication of no Reportable School Safety Incidents for a School ..................................................................... 130 Expulsions due to Academic or Student Code Violations .................................................................................. 130 Out of School Suspensions due to Academic or Student Code Violations ........................................................ 134 Appendix AB – Categories to Use in the District Fact Template ........................................................................... 138 Appendix AC – Program Provider Type Codes ..................................................................................................... 139 2012/2013 PIMS Manual V1.0.1 Page 2 Volume 2 Release Date 5/21/2013 Pennsylvania Information Pennsylvania Department Management System of Education Appendix A – Course Codes For each course code collected in PIMS, PDE will indicate if the Course is a core content course. All core content courses are subject to Highly Qualified Teacher (HQT) requirements and are associated with one of the core content subject areas including: English, Reading/Language Arts, Mathematics, Sciences, Foreign Languages, Music and Art, Social Studies (history, economics, geography, and civics and government). Five-digit secondary course codes were adopted from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) common classification system for secondary courses in the United States. Information, including course descriptions, is available in the Secondary School Course Classification System: School Codes for Exchange of Data (SCED), NCES 2007-341. SCED is part of the NCES data handbook series and is published as a searchable electronic database, Handbooks Online Copy and paste this address in your browser: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007341 or go to http://nces.ed.gov/programs/handbook and search for SCED. For a list of tests and academic majors along with the certificate to State Course Code mapping, go to http://www.education.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pims_- _pennsylvania_information_management_system/8959/pims_documents/602523 . Click on HQT and select the document