State Board of Education district from the loader’s embedded county-district lookup; -1 marks an unmapped district.
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Legislative
Nebraska legislative district returned by the GIS lookup for the composite school; -1 marks a failed lookup.
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School
Composite school identifier CONCAT(county_district, ‘-‘, school).
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County
First two characters of k12_students.county_district, converted to integer.
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Esu
Educational service unit joined by county_district and school_year_ending.
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Year
K-12 school_year_ending from k12_students for the school-year geography record.
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Nswers Id
Unique cross-system NSWERS student identifier. Carried from source records or membership assignments and used as the student-level join key.
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Startdate
First observed postsecondary start date after the latest diploma date, or after the estimated 18th-birthday eligibility date when no diploma date is available.
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Institution
Institution associated with the selected first qualifying postsecondary start. For high-school graduates it comes from the earliest term after the latest diploma date; otherwise from postsecondary enrollment paired with age-18 eligibility.
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Nswers Id
Unique cross-system NSWERS student identifier. Carried from source records or membership assignments and used as the student-level join key.
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Fffd Ps Type
Postsecondary sector for the FFFD institution; institution 181765 is explicitly treated as ps2.
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Fffd Start Date
Start date of the selected FFFD term; months May through October qualify.
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Fffd Institution
Institution selected for the earliest fall first-time, full-time, degree-seeking undergraduate term.
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Fffd Year
Cohort year from the first psfallfirstfulldegreeseeking, ps2fallfirstfulldegreeseeking, or ps4fallfirstfulldegreeseeking membership row found for the student.
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Nswers Id
Unique cross-system NSWERS student identifier. Carried from source records or membership assignments and used as the student-level join key.
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Exited With Award
1 when award_code is present for the selected exit record; 2 when it is absent.
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Award Cip Code
award_cip_code associated with the qualifying exit award; NULL when no award is selected.
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Award Level
award_code for the award at or after the exit academic year; NULL for no-award exiters.
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Exit Date
Award date when a qualifying award exists; otherwise the end_date of the latest degree-seeking term.
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Exiting Institution Ps Type
Postsecondary sector of exiting_institution from the institution lookup.
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Exiting Institution
Institution for the student’s latest degree-seeking term, joined across two-year/four-year enrollment and terms.
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Dse Exit Year
Academic-year-ending cohort year from psdegreeseekingawardexiter or psdegreeseekingnoawardexiter membership.
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Nswers Id
Unique cross-system NSWERS student identifier. Carried from source records or membership assignments and used as the student-level join key.
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Course Count
Count of k12_programs rows for the student. Despite the column name, the loader uses COUNT(*) over program records, not a distinct course count.