/studentContactAssociation (aka. /studentParentAssociation)

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Property Name

Data Type

Public (Required/ Optional/ Conditional)

Choice (Required/ Optional/ Conditional)

Business Definition

Data Element Page

1.1

contactUniqueID (2024-26 SY and later) Formerly, parentUniqueId*

string

REQ'D

REQ'D

A unique alphanumeric code assigned to a primary contact (aka parent).

contactUniqueId: [LEA ID+’-’+parent unique ID in SIS system]

Parent/Guardian

2.0

studentUniqueId*

string

REQ'D

REQ'D

A unique alphanumeric code assigned to a student.

WISEid

3.0

relationDescriptor

string

CONDITIONALLY REQ’D

CONDITIONALLY REQ’D

The nature of an individual's relationship to a student.

Values are: Father (F), Mother (M), Other (O), or Guardian (G).

NA

4.0

legalGuardian (2024-25 SY and later)

boolean

CONDITIONALLY REQ’D

CONDITIONALLY REQ’D

This information is needed for NSLP participating school where the student is eligble for free or reduced lunch. This is an Indicator of whether the person is a legal guardian for the student.

NA

5.0

livesWith (2024-25 SY and later)

boolean

CONDITIONALLY REQ’D

CONDITIONALLY REQ’D

This information is needed for NSLP participating school where the student is eligble for free or reduced lunch. Indicator of whether the student lives with the associated parent.

NA

6.0

primaryContactStatus
(2024-25 SY and later)

boolean

CONDITIONALLY REQ’D

CONDITIONALLY REQ’D

This information is needed for NSLP participating school where the student is eligble for free or reduced lunch. Indicator of whether the person is a primary parental contact for the student.

NA

uri://dpi.wi.gov/RelationDescriptor

M

Mother

Mother

F

Father

Father

G

Guardian

Guardian

O

Other

Other

Sending parent/guardian information for each parent/guardian

The /parent and /studentParentAssociation resources have been renamed to /contacts and /studentContactAssociation starting 25-26 SY.

For 2024-25 SY, the parent/guardian data collection has been updated to include legal guardian information, living arrangements, and primary contact status.

These new data elements will facilitate the distribution of Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (S-EBT) cards to families, ensuring a more targeted and efficient outreach strategy based on the enhanced data insights.

The parent/guardian data collection is optional for LEAs to submit to WISEdata.

• One /studentParentAssociation record should be submitted for each student

• The order for posting JSON is: /student, /studentSchoolAssociation, /parent, then /studentParentAssociation

• Without posting the /studentParentAssociation record, vendor cannot do a GET on /parent

POST on /studentParentAssociations:
parentReference: parentUniqueId
studentReference: studentUniqueId
relationDescriptor: uri://dpi.wi.gov/RelationDescriptor#M

POST on /studentParentAssociations:
"parent reference": "parentUniqueId": "5004934-6737512", "studentReference": "studentUniqueId": "1025340078", "relationDescriptor": "uri://dpi.wi.gov/RelationDescriptor#G", "legalGuardian": true,

"livesWith": true,
"primaryContactStatus": true

Sending the student's parent/guardian information for a student who resides with their mother, but the legal guardian is the grandparent

The student resides with their mother (livesWith: true), but the legal guardian is the grandparent (legalGuardian: true). The mother in this example is marked as the primary contact (primaryContactStatus: true).

POST on /parent
POST on /studentParentAssociations: FOR THE MOTHER

"parentReference":
"parentUniqueId": "5004934-6737512",
"studentReference":
"studentUniqueId": "1025340078",
"relationDescriptor": "uri://dpi.wi.gov/RelationDescriptor#M",
"legalGuardian": false,
"livesWith": true,
"primaryContactStatus": true

POST on /parent
POST on /studentParentAssociations: FOR THE GRANDPARENT

"parentReference":
"parentUniqueId": "5004934-6737512",
"studentReference":
"studentUniqueId": "1025340078",
"relationDescriptor": "uri://dpi.wi.gov/RelationDescriptor#G",
"legalGuardian": true,
"livesWith": false,
"primaryContactStatus": false

Sending the student's parent/guardian information for a student who lives with the grandparent, but the father is identified as the legal guardian

The father is identified as the legal guardian (legalGuardian: true), but the student lives with the grandparent (livesWith: true), who is also in this example assigned as the primary contact (primaryContactStatus: true).

POST on /parent
POST on /studentParentAssociations: FOR THE FATHER

"parentReference":
"parentUniqueId": "5004934-6737512",
"studentReference":
"studentUniqueId": "1025340078",
"relationDescriptor": "uri://dpi.wi.gov/RelationDescriptor#F",
"legalGuardian": true,
"livesWith": false,
"primaryContactStatus": false

POST on /parent
POST on /studentParentAssociations: FOR THE GRANDPARENT

"parentReference":
"parentUniqueId": "5004934-6737512",
"studentReference":
"studentUniqueId": "1025340078",
"relationDescriptor": "uri://dpi.wi.gov/RelationDescriptor#G",
"legalGuardian": false,
"livesWith": true,
"primaryContactStatus": true

Sending parent/guardian information when they more than one students in the same LEA

• DPI expects one /parent record when parent/guardian has multiple students attending the same LEA.

• One /studentParentAssociation record should be submitted for each student

Sending parent/guardian information when student transferres to a new LEA

Because the parentUniqueId includes the LEA ID, each LEA is expected to send /parent AND /studentParentAssociation records

LEA 1: submits a /Parent record AND a /studentParentAssociation record

AND

LEA 2: submits a /Parent record AND a /studentParentAssociation record

Sending parent/guardian information for a student whose guardianship arrangements have changed

When a parent/guardian is changed in the SIS, then the SIS/LEA should delete the /parent and /studentParentAssociation records and send updated records with the new parent/guardian information. This is important for foster students and adopted students.

To delete the /parent, the /studentParentAssociation must be deleted first.

Updating parent/guardian information for a student

There is an Ed-Fi issue when SIS vendors do a POST->GET->DELETE->POST on /parent using the same unique id. This issue appears to be a problem for v3.4, but not for v5.2.

Instead of deleting a /parent record, vendors should update (PUT) the rcords with the changes.