State Compensatory Education (SCE)/Comp Ed Funding (reference TEC 48.104)
Eligible students are determined to be educationally disadvantaged and are reported in the PEIMS Fall submission with a Student Census Block Group as defined in the TSDS Web-Enabled Data Standards (Reference section DR6 of the Student Entity))
TEA evaluates Census Tiers for Compensatory Education funding annually and rebalances the assigned Census Block Groups to Census Tier mapping. This may or may not change your Census Tier Funding year to year as reflected on the HB3 Compensatory Education Report.
The ODS reporting of SCE Tier counts uses the latest published TEA Census Tier Mapping for the respective school year. https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/general-information/census-block-group-tools (right side under State Funding).
TEA has reviews and potentially rebalances the current year mapping AFTER the Fall PEIMS is finalized at TEA. If an updated Census Block Tier Mapping is posted ODS will load and reprocess all LEA’s Fall files for final updated Census Tiers for the current funding year.
TEA Notes regarding the use of the Preliminary spreadsheet:
- The intended purpose of this SCE spreadsheet is for Local Education Agency use for calculating their preliminary State Compensatory Education Allotment (SCE) for the current school year.
- This spreadsheet cannot be used as a final yearly calculation of your SCE allotment by campus or by district.
ODS has confirmed the final 2025-2026 mapping with TEA (see note on 4/15/2026 below) and the Finance – Finance Custom Reports > Summary of Finance (SOF) Reports > Student Funding Detail Reports > HB3 Compensatory Education – Eco Dis/Census Tiers reports reflect this mapping.
As of 4/15/2026 TEA confirmed the Final 25-26 Census Tier Mapping on the TEA Summary of Finance for 25-26 was not rebalanced as of the preliminary 2026 mapping loaded in OnDataSuite on 8/11/2025. Therefore the mapping in OnDataSuite as of 8/11/2025 is what TEA School Finance is using.
This will be mapping used as we open the 26-27 school year reporting.
As of 8/11/2025, OnDataSuite has released the preliminary 25-26 mapping and as 25-26 Fall data is processed it will utilize the TEA provided mapping.
As of 5/1/2025, OnDataSuite released the 24-25 Tier Final Mapping Updates received from TEA and reprocessed all Finance – Summary of Finance reporting related to HB3 Compensatory Education – Eco Dis/Census Tiers for 2024-2025. The ODS reports are now matching the TEA Summary Finance Campus Details on Compensatory Education.
As of 4/18/2025, TEA posted 24-25 SOF Preliminary Update communication https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/TXTEA/bulletins/3dc4aa1. At this time OnDataSuite is still waiting on the Census Tier Mapping for 2025 to be released based upon the data used by School Finance (note 4/3 posting). We monitor this site daily and are in communication with TEA waiting for when they will post the remapped tiers. https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/general-information/census-block-group-tools
We are aware the Totals by Campus and Grand Total Count on the SOF matches the OnDataSuite HB3 Compensatory Education reporting by Campus. However, the tier totals are not aligned until we receive the mapping update from TEA.