KPM: ECDS Uploads for Kindergarten Data
Texas school districts and charter schools submit Kindergarten data to upload into TEA’s Early Childhood Data System (ECDS) through Ed-Fi IODS submission. Texas districts are required to submit beginning-of-year (BOY) data.
2025-26 ECDS Process for Kindergarten Data
BOY reading instruments must be administered no later than the 60th day of the school year.
Districts must review student information data and resolve any errors.
We strongly recommend submitting ECDS data as soon as TEA opens the upload window. This provides plenty of time to resolve any issues before the deadline.
ECDS Kindergarten ready for submission: November 10, 2025
ECDS Kindergarten submission due date for LEAs: January 29, 2026
Setting Administration Windows
Assessment windows are not established by CLI Engage. They are open so that each district can determine the dates they prefer to assess. Now districts have access to a new optional feature that would enable districts to lock assessment dates to prevent accidental administration outside the LEA's defined window.
This feature ensures that teachers conduct assessments during the correct waves and within designated testing periods. It will not impact the data in reports, or the Ed-Fi results sent to the ECDS for Texas public schools.
Click the how-to guide for instructions on setting assessment windows:
CLI Engage Assessment Lock
Your Submission to ECDS
LEAs will report K assessment results to ECDS via the Ed-Fi IODS. For more information about this process visit: Ed-Fi ECDS Submission
Ensure that all students have TSDS IDs (only students with TSDS IDs will be included in the export)
Ensure that any duplicate students have been removed
Important information about your ECDS submission:
Please review the following information when selecting the KPM measures that will be assessed in kindergarten classrooms:
Texas Education Code (TEC) §28.006 requires LEAs to administer an assessment instrument that measures emergent literacy-reading skills. LEAs using KPM to fulfill this requirement must administer all three measures that comprise the composite score for the kindergarten literacy screener score (Vocabulary, Letter Names, and Spelling).
In addition to the kindergarten literacy screener composite score, ECDS reports from CLI Engage will also include raw scores for Vocabulary, Letter Names, and Spelling that will be used to calculate the Statewide Kindergarten Readiness Score by TEA.
Reporting requirements will only include BOY measures (referred to as Wave 1 in CLI Engage).
Required KPM Measures for ECDS
LEAs are recommended to assess in all five ECDS domains and report this information to ECDS. For KPM, specific measures aligned to ECDS reports for all five domains are in the table below. If your LEA administers these measures using KPM, those scores can be included in your ECDS submission.
Click on the video to watch more about Kindergarten ECDS:
TEA Resources
For important information and deadlines visit:
TEA Early Childhood Data Collection Requirements & Key Dates
TEA ECDS Submission Requirements: Public Pre-K and Kindergarten Programs
If you have any questions regarding prekindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1, or grade 2 instruments, please contact the TEA Division of Early Childhood by email at earlychildhoodeducation@tea.texas.gov or submit a help ticket through ECE Support Portal.