Attendance & PEIMS 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.

This is a pooled opportunity. We will be hiring on an ongoing basis and/or when a role becomes available. The School Operations Team is focused on creating the conditions by which our schools can thrive by designing and leading efficient, safe, joyful, and just systems; working to remove obstacles to learning and find creative solutions to challenges to enable the highest level of teaching and learning;

and providing best‑in‑class customer service to families and staff members to ensure they feel welcomed, cared for and a valued member of our community. The Attendance & PEIMS Specialist is a school‑based position responsible for maintaining impeccable student information data and record keeping, assisting with seamless school operations, and supporting excellent teaching and learning by providing data to inform decisions.

The Attendance and PEIMS Specialist is the data and student information expert at the school.

We are looking for a dedicated professional who will support our mission by ensuring accurate student data management and attendance processing, and by providing essential information to educators and families.

• Partners with students, staff and parents to ensure students attend school every day
• Trains teachers on attendance procedures and inputs the data into the Student Information System (SIS)
• Documents all attendance changes, corrects attendance data, and completes audits as needed
• Communicates attendance reporting to staff and indicates when a student is at risk
• Participates in the weekly attendance check‑in meeting with increasing responsibilities over time

• Audits and corrects student data issues in the SIS and completes Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) reporting
• Generates and reviews reports and verifies with appropriate stakeholders
• Manages incoming and outgoing requests for student records through TREx
• Enters and updates master and student schedules in SIS
• Reviews and determines eligibility for a variety of programs and ensures that eligibility is correctly documented in systems
• Runs grade verification reports for each grading cycle and prints progress reports and report cards

• Verifies students are fully enrolled and makes any data corrections in registration packets and the SIS
• Collects any required documents for students to enroll
• Sets up, manages, and audits student folders
• Accepts transfer requests from families and coordinates process with other schools
• Handles external student document requests
• Tracks leaver information and ensures that withdrawal meetings are held
• Prepar…