Student Address

Student Address: WISEdata

WISEdata Portal collects Home Address as part of the Parent/Guardian section of a Student Specific screen. Home address is a type of physical address.

Student Address/Home Address refers to the address of the physical place where a student resides with their parent/guardian.

Multiple home addresses can exist for one student, but only one Home Address (the primary home address) is expected to be submitted to WISEdata.

• The Home Address cannot be a P.O. Box.

• The Home Address can be the same as the Mailing Address, but parents/guardians can also provide a Mailing Address separate from the Home Address.

• The Mailing Address can be a P.O. Box.

Student Address is a contingently** optional data element that records the primary address where a student currently resides.

This data element is optional, though submitting student addresses has the following benefits:

• Allows your district to make use of digital equity data, including by using the Wisconsin Public Digital Equity Map to visualize internet connectivity in your district. For more information, refer to the DPI Digital Equity Gap page.
• Helps increase the likelihood of an accurate match if looking up a student's immunizations in the Wisconsin Immunization Registry (WIR).

** If a student is participating in the Summer EBT program:

Certain parent/guardian information is required to be collected by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) via WISEdata and shared with the Department of Health Services (DHS) to obtain Summer EBT. An address is one such required piece of information. More information about Parent/Guardian data requirements can be located on the Parent/Guardian data element page. An FAQ below provides information on how homeless students can provide an address. 

This data element includes several components outlined in the table below.

USES: This data element is used to map digital equity data and to help look up student immunization records from the Wisconsin Immunization Registry (WIR). Additionally, this data element is conditionally required to obtain Summer EBT money. In those cases, this information is shared from the DPI to DHS as per federal regulations.

FAQs, Details, and Point to Note

This data element is conditionally required for Choice schools as it pertains to student participation in summer EBT.

1. Student has multiple home addresses: 
   1. WISEdata only allows for one Home address and one Mailing address per student. Please check with your student information system (SIS) to see if your specific vendor tool supports different options.
   2. If the student has more than one home address, one must be designated as the “Home” address and the other designated as the “Mailing” address.
2. Student moved to a new address during the school year but attends the same school: 
   1. In this scenario, update the student's primary home address in your SIS and submit it to WISEdata to replace the previous primary home address.
3. Student is under the care of a Guardian: 
   1. In this scenario, use the home address of the Guardian.
4. Homelessness: 
   1.  Some homeless families use an Income Maintenance (IM) agency to receive their mail. The address for the IM agency can count as a mailing address. The Department of Health Services (DHS) can assist, as can the Homeless Liaisons at DPI. This flier includes an up-to-date listing of Income Maintenance agencies that serve as homeless mail pick-up sites.

5. Foster Care/Group Home/Residential Care Center:

   1. In this scenario, use the address of the out-of-home care (OHC) placement. The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) is the state agency that assists with OHC address.

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