Office of Educational Services & Support

Tracking Migrant Families

The South Dakota Department of Education Migrant Education Program utilizes an Access program called MIS 2000, for tracking migrant families. This software is capable of producing reports that reflect any given scenario that has been requested by state entities, as well as the federal government. This program is technically supported by Management Services for Education Data (MS/EdD), located in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The key to the system is accurate reporting to the state office by completion of a form called a Certificate of Eligibility (COE). This form contains all pertinent information on a family that qualifies as a migrant worker. The COE is completed by a migrant recruiter and sent to the state office for verification and encoding.

Some examples of reports derived from information provided on a COE and produced by the MIS 2000 tracking system are as follows:

REPORTING PERIOD: September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2007
COUNT OF STUDENTS BY DISTRICT:

ABERDEEN	3	ALCESTER-HUDSON	2	BELLE FOURCHE	16	BONESTEEL-FAIRFAX	8
BOWDLE	4	BROOKINGS	11	BURKE	2	CASTLEWOOD	6
CHAMBERLAIN	3	CLARK	3	COLOME	1	CONDE	3
DAKOTA VALLEY	5	DESMET	5	DEUEL	2	EDMUNDS CENTRAL	8
ELKTON	8	ESTELLINE	13	FAITH	2	FLANDREAU	5
FREDERICK AREA	1	HANSON	2	HILL CITY	15	HOVEN	2
HOWARD	4	HURON	105	IPSWICH	1	IROQUOIS	2
KADOKA	1	LAKE PRESTON	3	LYMAN	3	MADISON CENTRAL	4
MARION	1	MCCOOK CENTRAL	1	MCINTOSH	4	MEADE	9
MILBANK	12	MILLER	6	MITCHELL	10	MONTROSE	2
NEWELL	9	PLANKINTON	8	PLATTE	4	RAPID CITY	11
ROSLYN	1	SANBORN CENTRAL	4	SCOTLAND	2	SIOUX FALLS	177
SISSETON	12	SPEARFISH	4	STANLEY COUNTY	4	SUMMIT	3
TEA	1	TRI VALLEY	6	VIBORG	1	WATERTOWN	20
WESSINGTON SPRINGS	12	WOLSEY-WESSINGTON	3	WOONSOCKET	1	YANKTON	7

MIGRANT STUDENT ORIGINATION:

MEXICO	48	MINNESOTA	57	IOWA	15
TEXAS	17	NEBRASKA	29	CALIFORNIA	31
334 STUDENTS CAME FROM ALL OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES

QUALIFYING ACTIVITIES (primary source of income):

BEEF PROCESSING	145	FOOD PROCESSING	5	FARM HAND	30
FERTILIZER PLANT	3	DAIRY	105
FEED LOT	3	TRUCK FARMING	3
ELEVATOR	4	NURSERY	7
SOY BEANS	2	POULTRY	41
HONEY BEES	11	RANCHING	23
LOGGING	17	PORK PROCESSING	171