Statewide Student Identifier (SSID) Project
Education Code sections 49084 and 60900 requires all K-12 public school students to have a unique, non-personally identifiable student identifier. All K-12 public school students were assigned a Statewide Student Identifiers (SSID) by June 2005. All LEAs are currently required on an ongoing basis to acquire SSIDs for new students and maintain SSIDs for existing students. The California School Information Services (CSIS) is currently responsible for maintaining the SSID student locator database and assisting LEAs to acquire and maintain SSIDs. Once the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) is implemented, the SSIDs will be acquired and maintained through CALPADS and the CSIS program staff will continue to provide assistance to LEAs.
Maintaining SSIDs includes providing updates to changes in a student's enrollment status, such as exiting a student with the appropriate withdrawal reason when a student leaves a school. Maintaining SSIDs also entails resolving errors in the assignment of SSIDs which create "anomalies." There are three types of SSID anomalies:
- Multiple Identifier (MID) anomalies occur when it appears that one student has more than one SSID.
- Concurrent Enrollment (CCE) anomalies occur when it appears a student is primarily enrolled in more than one California public school at the same time.
- Exit Reason Discrepancy (ERD) anomalies are when there is inconsistency between a student's exit reason and subsequent enrollment (e.g. a student is exited as transferring to another California public school district, but does not enroll in another school district).
